Of all my false identities, the strategies in my campaign to be accepted, being a sworn Republican is the hardest to explain.… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
“Try to notice-in all your thoughts, sensations, and direct encounters-the objects and 'outside-standers' that make appearance meaningful. For each object encountered or… — Tarthang Tulku Copy Share Image
One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine culture, for the supposedly feminine qualities of… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“One's-Self I Sing One's-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I was adopted by a Salvadorian mother and a white father. Growing up having complete identity crisis. Then my search for my… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
I've realized that it's important to stop trying to think I'm any one thing. People are confused as to their identity and… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“The man who never weakens when things are against him will grow stronger and stronger until all things will delight to be… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
I knew she was a party girl. The book I liked most on her was called [princess] Margaret: A Life of Contrasts… — Vanessa Kirby Copy Share Image
“Stepping out of one’s world or out of one’s habitual self is a transcendental experience. [...] If we seek transcendence, we may… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
The self must be a tense bow. It must struggle with opposites rather than harmonize them, rather than turn the tension over… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“Your False Self is who you think you are. Your thinking does not make it true. Your False Self is almost entirely… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“For one of the first pressures that bear down on American girls is the pressure not only to be liked but to… — Debra Ollivier Copy Share Image
I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I'm sad because I want to bow out of my race and leave my beautiful identity? Chinese love Chinese. They love their… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
The Khmer Rouge tried to delete everything. They tried to erase our past, our personality, our land, our sentiment. What we tried… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
“This real self lies dormant under the threshold of consciousness in the minds of the confused; consequently, each of them is inclined… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
The writers are writing scripts that treat nonbinary like it's casual. Like it's in the 'Grey's' world. Nonbinary is a thing that's… — E. R. Fightmaster Copy Share Image
“The assumption that being gay or black necessarily harms the self-worth of all who fit this category has a patronizing dimension, because… — Michael Kenny Copy Share Image
I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think it is inevitable that leftist forces in the US would be divided, if not balkanized, to some extent. Among the… — Robert Pollin Copy Share Image
“We like to think of individuals as unique. Yet if this is true of everyone, then we all share the same quality,… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“The self has no sign of itself... For me, certain signifiers fit you, and not others. For me, all signifiers fit me,… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It is not only visitors to the zoo who are fascinated but uneasy in the presence of chimpanzees; the same is true… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“What a man finds circa se or sub se is overwhelming in amount, what he finds in se is embarassing in its… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“But Mariana was wrong. You couldn't die. You had to go on. When you were born, you were given a trust of… — Monica Dickens Copy Share Image
I do believe that half a dozen commonplace attorneys could so mystify and misconstrue the Ten Commandments, and so confuse Moses' surroundings… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“The characteristic feature of contemporary literary radicalism is that it rarely addresses the question of its own determination by the conditions of… — Aijaz Ahmad Copy Share Image
When one gives whatever one can without restraint, the barriers of individuality break down. It no longer becomes possible to tell whether… — Laozi Copy Share Image
If I were to peruse a survey of label options, as they exist now, they either sound like a time bomb disorder… — Paul Dalio Copy Share Image
When you're undercover you try to stay as true to your identity as you are. You know who you are, and you… — Ron Stallworth Copy Share Image
Im sorry I dont want to be alone I feel unheard unseen depressed and weak No one cares yet again Im always… — Myothersweetangel199 Copy Share Image
If you think about black art, all black art, whether it's Invisible Man or whether it's James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Hurston,… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image