2,417 Quotes About Identity

Who defined me? My culture, a culture of mercy, a living codex. I am a unique culture of one, from everywhere. I am her map and her self. I am everyone in the story; I am the story.

In May I keep count.Two and a half more days of school;five between exams.Twenty thousand words of a noveland four poems and six borrowed books.More numbers to add to counting my pillsand trying to work out how to stay awake.

Behind every face lies a mask. Behind it lies another onion layer of mask. If you peel the skins, you may cry.

A mask is what we wear to hide from ourselves.

When the lord gives a human a life to live with and all the things they need, why do the humans give back the money to the lord ? Are humans that crazy ? Or do we have a mask of saying it out instead of delivering what is called as mankind ?

The fuck are you staring at? I hiss at the stranger staring at me in my rearview. Oh, wait, that's me.

I find it really fascinating that while in an attempt to look beautiful we tend to go for what's easily acceptable.But when it comes to portraits, it is only our facial flaws that make that picture worth its while, setting it apart.Isn't it amazing to find that beauty is something that makes us alike? While our flaws are the real contributors to our uniqueness.

...being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.

Life's complicated, Stacey. Elections demand that we simplify things, even simplify people, but sometimes that's impossible.