Quotes about Identity

I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works. (Psalm 139:14, NKJV)

God has a team. It's made up of African-American, Anglo, Hispanic, Asian, Middle Eastern, and a variety of other people and cultures. He never wants you to make your distinction, your history, or your background so precious to you that it messes up His team.

There were interesting ways that queerness could hide out and get played out pre-Stonewall. It is part of a vast history that is getting forgotten quickly as we trumpet forward into gay marriage and gays in the military and a much different cultural attitude toward gay lives.

If America is an idea, which it is - we're not a nation of ethnic groups that say we're Americans because we have American blood; we have the blood of every nation in our veins - and there's something really beautiful about that, but it means that we are an idea and that we all have to buy into this idea.

When you leave your country, it's hard to leave your family over there. My whole family is in Venezuela.

Who creates a fake page? If I want to respond to a person on social media, it has to come from my page with the verified check on it.

It's exhausting trying to impress someone and be a version of yourself that might be attractive to them.

Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.

No more hiding. No more pretending to be something she wasn't. She would wear an older woman's clothes, but she would wear them in such a way that she was honest with herself, with others, and with God. She was a teenager who had been left behind, but she was also one who had seen what was right and acted upon it. She belonged to God now, and she would present herself to him as she really was.

A son or daughter in any human family is either born to or adopted by the parents. By definition, a child can't be both. But with God we're both born of Him and adopted by Him.

God doesn't love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

Anything that makes us forget who we are and what we want; that way we can work in order to produce, reproduce, and earn money.