Quotes about Identity

Those lines in Gillian's face are the most beautiful part about her. They reveal what she's gone through and what she's survived and who exactly she is, deep inside.

I do not know if he had a name, but I called him North, an appellation I think Beck would have approved of, for it was the name the Dutch called the Hudson River when they first came here, when men set to changing the world in their image, and gave all the wild things their own names.

who I am to talk? I dream of rain.

She once told me that anyone who gets married had better like herself, because there's nobody else in this world that she'll ever really know, not truly.

Perhaps I was drawn to stories in which people found their true desires because I was a stranger to myself.

that you must be yourself no matter what; anything else was a lie, and a denial of who you were would always cause grief. What you put out into the world came back to you threefold.

What belonged to you once, will always belong to you.

I'll pretend to be who they want me to be.' He grinned then, and she saw his youth. 'But it won't work. In the end I'll have to disappoint someone. Either them, or myself.

I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.

It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period

I think Africans are very much like white people back home, in that they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.