identity Quotes

I'm pro Union.

Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother - so I wouldn't be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.'

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now.

I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood.