“We gravitate toward labels because it's always a relief to be seen, to find ourselves in descriptions.”— Geneen Roth, amazon.com
“Pretty soon, there's not gonna be any Jew or Aryan or Hindu or Muslim or Mexican or Blacks. There's just gonna be the rich and the fucked, and our grandson is already one of the fucked.”— Dominique Morisseau, Frank Gallagher, William H. Macy, imdb.com
“Somebody will call me and ask me to come to a march because such and such got shot. In that situation I want to know what really happened. I’m not going to jump up and go march just because I’m green and the person who got shot is green. The rush to get mad doesn’t make sense to me.”— Erykah Badu, vulture.com
“Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.”— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.com
“I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.”— George Washington Carver, christianquotes.info
“Big data can absorb individual voices, so much so that the self, the interpreter, may seem vulnerable, even lost.”— Sara van den Berg, amazon.com
“It may be more important for you to be authentic than to look a certain part. People will detect that you are not being yourself, and it impacts your confidence and anxiety level.”— Lyn Slater, refinery29.com
“People are defined by their people. They are defined by their pleasure. They are defined by their memories. That’s about it. All the rest is, well, stuff.”— Courtney E. Martin, amazon.com
“A big part of our jobs, as mature adult human beings, is figuring out who we are and what we value WITHOUT falling back on a million and one inaccurate and clumsy stories told by other people who know us about as well as a fucking squirrel knows the moon. The squirrel might say, “The moon is on fire…”— Heather Havrilesky, thecut.com
“Consider for a moment that what you call your "personality" is actually just a composite of habits & behavioral patterns you developed to cope with trauma. Now ask yourself, who am I outside of my pain? Who would I be if I stopped living life as a product of my story?”— Ebonee Davis, twitter.com
“I’m having a conversation with one of my friends and I ask him, “What defines you?” and he responded with, “Nothing. A definition excludes the possibility for change.””— @fuckyouandyourhoes, fuckyouandyourhoes.tumblr.com
“I wanted to be something else. Myself, but better. Wild, and not-yet, A burn, maybe as it is occurring.”— Cynthia Cruz, bombmagazine.org
“Names are not important. It's what lies inside of you that matters.”— Sarah J. Maas, Nehemia Ytger, amazon.com
“The things you love about others are the things you love about yourself. The things you hate about others are the things you cannot see in yourself.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“I know who I am. Bloody hell, I'm getting enough bills for Karl Pilkington so I hope I am him, 'cos if I'm not, I have no idea who I'm paying for.”— Karl Pilkington, amazon.com
“When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.”— Nora Ephron, imdb.com
“For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.”— Desmond Tutu, en.wikiquote.org
“I count all the oceans, blood & not-blood, all the people I could be, the whole map, my mirror.”— Fatimah Asghar, poetryfoundation.org
“I always feel like I’m struggling to become someone else. Like I’m trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life, a new personality. I guess it’s part of growing up, yet it’s also an attempt to reinvent myself. By becoming a different me, I could free myself of everything. I seriously believed…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com