625 quotes found
“Disconnect from societys pressure to conform. Do things your own way.”
“Perhaps its impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be. She thought of that, worried about it for a few days, and then wrote a column using that as a premise, to show th...”
“I realise that a certain school of thought says that who we are is something we construct for ourselves. We build our self out of what we think we remember.”
“They don't know who I am; what they do know, is that I'm not nothing, and that I'm not noone.”
“You never know who anybody is. Even the people closest to you.”
“...modern Western culture has placed what it calls sexuality in a more and more distinctively privileged relation to our most prized constructs of individual identity, truth, and knowledge, it beco...”
“Who were these people, these specially selected tenants? They were mothers and fathers and children. A dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge. And, oh yes, one was a bookie, one wa...”
“Whose truth do you want to know, Dr. Amin Jaafari? The truth of a Bedouin who thinks hes free and clear because hes got an Israeli passport? The truth of a serviceable Arab per excellence whos hono...”
“What makes you a chaffinch?”
“If I am I because I am I, and you are you because you are you, then I am I and you are you. But if I am I because you are you and you are you because I am I, then I am not I and you are not you!”
“The StrangerLooking as Ive looked before, straight down the heartof the street to the riverwalking the rivers of the avenuesfeeling the shudder of the caves beneath the asphaltwatching the lights t...”
“Group membership can modify individuals' perceptions of themselves. Unable to separate their personal introspection from the ways they believe other people perceive them, teenagers may have what ps...”
“The very fact that we need to struggle for approval proves that we do not approve of ourselves. Having to convince ourselves of something means we do not really believe it. That is why we contort o...”
“This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. For if I try to ...”
“She already loved me too much to see me as I was.”
“I'll never suppress my identity -- that's like filing away your fingerprints so the money can slide into your pockets easier.”
“And this is when I knew I was black for real.This is when I knew black was a citywhose walls were constantly under siege....”
“There are varieties of life unknown to you.Their whole identity is: you can't find out.”
“We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard defining edges.”
“What we love we are.”
