#identity

What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#labels #names #personality #identity

I've tried to become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me. ↗

— Stephen Dunn

#poem #poetry #self #identity

Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you ever thought we might like you because you're different? ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#identity #identity

They enveloped each other within the folds of their thoughts, holding each other with an intimacy no physical embrace could replicate, allowing their identities to merge once again. Their greatest comfort was a simple one: they were no longer alone. To know that you were with the one who cared for you, and who understood every fiber of your being, and who would not abandon you even in the most desperate of circumstances, that was the most precious relationship a person could have, and they both cherished it. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#intoxicating #identity

When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#consequence #global #identity #investment #lose

Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#aspects #class #country #ethnic #identity

You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#absolute freedom #because #deal #freedom #identity

But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#binary #black #creates #enormous #example

Mr. Speaker, Americans want, need, and rightfully expect Congress to protect them from the prying eyes of identity thieves and give them back control of their Social Security numbers and personal health information. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#congress #control #expect #eyes #give

I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what we've gone through in life, being given an opportunity to understand who I am; my identity, my culture, and my roots. ↗

— Luis Guzman

#being #culture #east #east side #given