Quotes about Identity
You matter. You are. Be.
— Madeleine L'Engle
My daughter, I am not a Mrs Whatsit, a Mrs Who, or a Mrs Which. Yes, Calvin has told me everything he could. I am a human being, and a very fallible one. But I agree with Calvin. We were sent here for something. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
— Madeleine L'Engle
And if God approves of people like Alicia, he doesn't want me; and the devil does. It's nice to be wanted, Mrs. Franklin. I haven't been wanted for a long time now.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Love. That's what makes persons know who they are. You're full of love, Meg, but you don't know how to stay within it when it's not easy.
— Madeleine L'Engle
If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate. That's why we still need
— Madeleine L'Engle
Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I think your mythology would call them fallen angels. War and hate are their business, and one of their chief weapons is un-Naming - making people not know who they are. If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being.
— Malcolm X
Some men succeed by what they know some by what they do and a few by what they are.
— Elbert Hubbard
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.
— Anais Nin
If I bear the name of another, I have given up my own name and my own independent life.
— Andrew Murray