I've tried
to become someone else for a while,
only to discover that he, too, was me.
Tag: poetry identity self poem
The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics, and other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties.
AberjhaniTag: writing humanity identity human-nature psychology creativity writing-life mirrors national-poetry-month nanowrimo literary-inspiration personal-identity
His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.
Kate MortonHe wished he could be anywhere else and anyone else but Here and Him.
James R. SilvestriTag: identity self-loathing dissatisfaction
It’s important to understand that at every point of opposition to who we are or to what God has called us to do, we are presented with the options of either conforming and giving in, or standing our ground and becoming stronger in who God has made us to be
Gabriel WilsonTag: identity different calling being
We must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be.
John Joseph PowellTag: identity
I was born in the US and l have lived in Mexico since 1946. I believe that all these states of being have influenced my work and made it what you see today. I am inspired by Black people and Mexican people, my two peoples. My art speaks for both my peoples
Elizabeth CatlettTag: identity art-history diaspora
To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand. My identity is defined by the commitments and identifications which provide the frame or horizon within which I can try to determine from case to case what is good, or valuable, or what ought to be done, or what I endorse or oppose. In other words, it is the horizon within which I am capable of taking a stand.
Charles TaylorTag: identity self self-identity
She was right. After all, if she herself had wondered whether she was Indian enough -- she, who had always been to me a sort of epitome of Indian -- then who could be? Who could claim the sole right or way to an identity?
Tanuja Desai HidierTag: identity bicultural
There was a way in which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business; no one's true self was the business of more than a very small number of family members or close friends.
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