Identity Quotes

"I too am America" "Through others we become ourselves" "The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning" "I am no doubt not the only one who writes in order to have no face" "We are all complicated human beings, and we must deal with various sides of our character" "I think, therefore I am" "Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives—the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change—truly are powerless" "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman" "To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself" "Once you label me you negate me." "I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am." "The things that we love tell us what we are." "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" "Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another" "The name of the rose is a mere symptom of our nostalgia for a time when names meant something." "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes)" "I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you" "The city was so overwhelming it left you lost even from yourself" "The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are" "No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man"