I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder.

Raquel Cepeda

Tags: identity race racism hispanic hispanic-american latina latina-american latino-american race-as-concept racial-ambiguity

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When Dawn looked at Vic, she saw Vic exactly as he wanted to be seen. Whereas Vic's parents couldn't help seeing who he used to be, and so many friends and strangers couldn't help seeing who he didn't want to be anymore, Dawn only saw him. Call it a blur if you want, but Dawn didn't see a blur. She saw a very distinct, very clear person.

David Levithan

Tags: identity transgender loving-who-you-are

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Judith Rey watches the young woman. Once upon a time, I had a baby daughter. I dressed her in frilly frocks, enrolled her for ballet classes, and sent her to horse-riding camp five summers in a row. But look at her. She turned into Lester anyway. She kisses Luisa’s forehead. Luisa frowns, suspiciously, like a teenager. “What?

David Mitchell

Tags: growing-up parents identity children human-nature mother father daughter roles

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For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he said, so softly I could barely hear him, "here in the dark, with you… I have no name.

Diana Gabaldon

Tags: love identity jamie-fraser claire-fraser

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Anyone could be anybody. (Eric)

Shannon A. Thompson

Tags: identity paranormal-romance fiction trust paranoia supernatural young-adult

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I didn’t even have a name for her, shade or human, but I didn’t need one to know her. (Eric)

Shannon A. Thompson

Tags: love identity paranormal-romance fiction unknown supernatural young-adult lovers naming anonymous

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I wasn’t sure what was worse: being oblivious or living within reality. (Eric)

Shannon A. Thompson

Tags: reality questioning lies identity paranormal-romance fiction uncertainty young-adult oblivious

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Identity was everything, but it seemed I never had one. (Jessica)

Shannon A. Thompson

Tags: identity paranormal-romance fiction confusion supernatural young-adult

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No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

Frank Herbert

Tags: truth honesty identity self-awareness

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Each of us comes into being knowing who he is and what he is supposed to do.' ... 'Small children know,' Leto said. 'It's only after adults have confused them that children hide this knowledge even from themselves.

Frank Herbert

Tags: identity children self

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