625 quotes found
“It's toys, boy, all toys. You'll see more and more contraptions as you get older, but if I teach you anything, you'll learn that all of this is decoration. What counts is what's inside you and what...”
“Frankly, I believe that identity is what's inside us.”
“Chris Hedges said that Michael Jackson's memorial service was a variety show with a coffin, that MJ transformed himself through surgery and perhaps female hormones from a brown-skinned African Amer...”
“No one knows who they are more than someone who changes their identity (before I became a farmer, I was a leadership coach).”
“Only me, eh? Is that how you see yourself? Only you is worth a good deal more than you think.”
“What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.”
“How anyone becomes herself/is a mystery.”
“Using the voice is a physical act, one that first announces the existence of the body of residence and then trumpets its arrival in a public space.”
“He thought: that's certainly how it starts. One day a person puts his legs up on a bench, then night comes and he falls asleep. That's how it happens that one fine day a person joins the tramps and...”
“Often their rage erupts because they believe that all ways of looking that highlight difference subvert the liberal belief in a universal subjectivity (we are all just people) that they think will ...”
“black identities are diverse and complex”
“In her dream each of the people assembled around her looked like several others, whom she recognized, only they weren't gradually transformed from one into the other but each of them seemed to be i...”
“Though blessed with the enviable properties of a mink coatgraceful, unreasonable, and impractical no matter what she was draped overshe was nevertheless one of those people whose personality proved...”
“This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem, and projects in Red Hook, and dance ...”
“In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers, which also seem inadequate distinctions.”
“Shall I be'her'?”
“He said you have to be on the side of the losers, the people with bad lungs. You have to be with those who are homesick and can't breathe very well in Ireland. He said it makes no sense to hold a s...”
“Whether he knew of this deficiency himself I can't say. I think the knowledge came to him at last--only at the very last. But the wilderness found him out early, and had taken vengeance for the fan...”
“Unmoor the boat, we could godownriver...History is a collection of found objects washed up through time. Goods, ideas, personalities surface towards us and then sink away and some we hook out and o...”
“At a certain point in his life he stopped searching for himself in everything that exists and gave in to temptations. Or, as you say, he sinned and later fled.”
