Quotes about Identity

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.

Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.

I spent three weeks lamenting, ruminating and praying because football had been part of my life since age 6. Then I moved on. I'm glad I always had another clear plan. Several of my FSU teammates did not and do not. It's hard to leave a sport that is embedded in you.

If you try to please everyone you'll please no one.

Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.

Christian' makes a poor adjective

Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.

Looking back, you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life, and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again.

Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won't be someone else.

The clash between child and adult is never so stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.

Present yourself always As who you would be, And that is the person The world will see.

If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.