“I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me—they, and the love and loyalty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“All kinds of things are happening to me. Some I chose, some I didn't. I don't know how to tell one from the other anymore. What I mean is, it feels like everything's been decided in advance—that I'm following a path somebody else has already mapped out for me. It doesn't matter how much I think thin…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“A musician must make music. An artist must paint. A poet must write. If he is to be ultimately at peace with himself, what a man can be, he must be.”— Abraham Maslow, amazon.com
“What am I in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then - even if that we were absolutely true, then I should like to show by my work what such an eccentr…”— Vincent Van Gogh, amazon.com
“Early in my life, I was only concerned with creating, without destination or purpose, creating was the purpose itself. And as reality set in, and the need to survive came with the need to have an identity, I've tried many things in discovering who I am and all of them eventually became useful.”— Monty Oum, crunchyroll.com
“Social scientists sometimes talk about the concept of 'identity.' It is the idea that you have a particular vision of the kind of person you are, and you feel awful when you do things that are out of line with that vision.”— Steven D. Levitt, amazon.com
“But as we continue to work on rejecting damaging norms around gender and sexuality, it’s important to question how we employ words and what associations we are invoking.”— Rachel Anspach, them.us
“I put myself out there on social media because I want people to see who I am.”— Bella Thorne, youtube.com
“This is the arc of loving yourself: not a lightning bolt or a movie romance, not swelling strings or bursting fireworks, but the incremental and incomplete progress of a melting glacier, shaping the land where it once lay.”— Your Fat Friend, medium.com
“Nelson Mandela once said, 'If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.' He was so right. When you make the effort to speak someone else's language, even if it's just basic phrases here and there, you are saying…”— Trevor Noah, amazon.com
“College is where I found my queerness, where I began to complicate my gender, where I learned to link my queerness to my politics.”— Ben Kesslen, them.us
“I think of my body as animal, one that needs perpetually more than I can give her.”— Carmen Maria Machado, medium.com
“Queerness and autism are both marginalized identities that make navigating society difficult; thus, I crave companionship and solidarity in both communities. In order to do this, I need queer spaces that are more accessible to autistic people.”— Chrysanthe Tan, them.us
“For the love of god, no matter what response you choose, please don’t be awkward about it.”— Jacob Tobia, buzzfeed.com
“The identity of the next President of these United States is once again in the hands of a bunch of self-serving, money-hungry, boot-licking, power-seeking politicians who can be seduced or sucker punched or blackmailed into submission. And all I need is just one more vote than the other guy.”— Bill Kennedy, Frank Underwood, Kevin Spacey, imdb.com
“Annihilation is always the answer. We destroy parts of ourselves every day. We Photoshop our warts away, we edit the parts we hate about ourselves, modify the parts we think people hate. We curate our identity, carve it, distill it. Krista's wrong—annihilation is all we are.”— Sam Esmail, Elliot Alderson, Rami Malek, imdb.com
“The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.”— Walt Dohrn, Paul Tibbitt, Merriwether Williams, Patrick Star, Bill Fagerbakke, imdb.com