Quotes about Identity

I wanted to be a Bride of Christ but I guess now I'm a young divorcee.

Some of us, we're hardly ever here The rest of us, we're born to disappear How do I stop myself from Being just a number? How will I hold my head To keep from going under?

We think sometimes we're only drawn to the good, but we're actually drawn to the authentic. We like people who are real more than those who hide their true selves under layers of artificial niceties.

Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

I'm from Iowa, we don't know what cool is!

The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep.

I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.

Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

Live a life as a monument to your soul.

I'm not a rapper; I'm an artist. And I'm more than an artist. I'm a brand.

It's pretty hard as an Asian rapper to not be put in a box. I do my best to avoid that.