Quote by Dinaw Mengestu Download Open image ““There is nothing so easily remade as our definitions of ourselves.”” — Dinaw Mengestu ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“In fact, there is nothing so easily remade as our definitions of ourselves.” — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
“We don’t have to allow ourselves to be defined by the labels imposed on us. We get to define ourselves.” — Lizzie Velásquez Copy Share Image
“How many of us allow others to define us and thus we become what they want us to be, not what we should be… — Lisa Renee Jones Copy Share Image
“We cannot define ourselves without negating the alternatives that we do not become.” — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“If you don't define who you are, everyone else will. Build yourself upon who you are, not upon others.” — Ray Price Billy Copy Share Image
“There is far, far more to being human than any of us can become on our own.” — Ronald R. Johnson Copy Share Image
“You and only you can define yourself. Noone else can no matter how hard they try.” — Maryam Niaz Copy Share Image
“What we define ourselves us can sometimes bring forth the best images of ourselves--or vice versa, will create some of the worst restrictions we… — Andrew Kendall Copy Share Image
“We have to be who we are, however we may seek eventually to transform ourselves.” — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“You are not truly yourself until you no longer define yourself in others’ terms.” — Shawn Davis Copy Share Image
“Never define yourself in the eyes of others, only u will and should define you.” — Jessica Lynn Pereplyotchik Copy Share Image
You see, at the beginning we weren't fighters. We weren't yellers or throwers, even if we eventually came to be. It would take time… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
I told my parents I was going to be a doctor and then a lawyer, but I never believed it and never tried. — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
“You will never disappear," I said. "Even if it may feel like you have at some point. We're going to remain a part of… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
Writers, especially those of us with roots in other countries, are rarely left to ourselves. We are asked to declare our allegiances, or they… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
Personally, its a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
“If the last thing a man has to hold on to is his sense of pride and accompanying dignity, then more likely than not… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
“Have you seen a hungry man with a gun? Of course not. Such things don't exist. It's like saying, have you ever seen a hungry lion? Of course not, because as soon as you did he wouldn't be hungry anymore. The men here with guns are the same. They can shoot, arrest, kill anyone they want. They've done it many… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share
There are those who wake up each morning to conquer the day, and then there are those of us who wake up only because we have to. We live in the shadow of every neighborhood. We own little corner stores, live in run-down apartments that get too little light, and walk the same streets day after day. We spend our… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share
“She always thought Americans were too territorial. 'All those fences and flags,' she had once said, seeing very little difference between the two.” — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
Ethnic divisions can definitely be exacerbated by a lack of natural resources, but those tensions become violent when people manipulate them for their own… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
“I remember another aphorism of my father's, one that he used to say whenever we passed someone pissing openly in the street: add color… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
