Quotes about Identity

I write about what I know: teenage dating, overly charged sexuality, all the things that make you uncomfortable.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.

Some people erroneously believe that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its members are not Christian. We have difficulty understanding why anyone could accept and promote an idea that is so far from the truth.

Women have been trained in our culture and society to ask for what we want instead of taking what we want. We've been really indoctrinated with this culture of permission. I think it's true for women, and I think it's true for people of color. It's historic, and it's unfortunate and has somehow become part of our DNA. But that time has passed.

Your crown has been bought and paid for. Put it on your head and wear it.

The world doesn't need what women have, it needs what women are.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

Women challenge the status quo because we are never it.

I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

How can we teach our children to respect Black women if Black women don't respect Black women?