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I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.

I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't...

Sally Pearson
I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't bother me because I don't know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family.

A lot of people think I'm that guy in 'Betsy's Wedding', but I'm not. What it is for me is that, on some level, I connect with the character emotionally.

Anthony LaPaglia
A lot of people think I'm that guy in 'Betsy's Wedding', but I'm not. What it is for me is that, on some level, I connect with the character emotionally.

My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

Kendrick Lamar
My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I love the smell of the river; love its history, its gentleness. I was aware of its presence from my...

Julie Andrews
Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I love the smell of the river; love its history, its gentleness. I was aware of its presence from my earliest years. Its majesty centered me, calmed me, was a solace to a certain extent.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

V.S. Pritchett
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

We aren't cool and never will be.

Chris Martin
We aren't cool and never will be.

Or maybe they weren't changing. Maybe they were just now becoming what they had always wanted to be.

Eilis O'Neal The False...
Or maybe they weren't changing. Maybe they were just now becoming what they had always wanted to be.

What makes you think that people with other types of clothes are special? I can go to the shop, buy such clothes, and what? Now I am important?

Deyth Banger
What makes you think that people with other types of clothes are special? I can go to the shop, buy such clothes, and what? Now I am important?

"I believe that we don't choose our stories," she began, leaning forward. "Our stories choose us." She paused and took a sip of water. Her hand, I noticed was steady.. "And if we don't tell them, then...

Dani Shapiro Still Writing:...
"I believe that we don't choose our stories," she began, leaning forward. "Our stories choose us." She paused and took a sip of water. Her hand, I noticed was steady.. "And if we don't tell them, then we are somehow diminished."

Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no...

Bryce Courtenay
Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.

I smiled at him. America, I said quietly, just like that. What is it? The sweepings of every country including our own. Isn't that true? That's a fact.

James Joyce
I smiled at him. America, I said quietly, just like that. What is it? The sweepings of every country including our own. Isn't that true? That's a fact.

But years and miles away from home could never attenuate the city's hold on my identity, and the more I explored places and people far from Hampton, the more my status as one of its daughters came to...

Margot Lee Shetterly Hidden Figures:...
But years and miles away from home could never attenuate the city's hold on my identity, and the more I explored places and people far from Hampton, the more my status as one of its daughters came to mean to me.

I think life becomes a fabric of choices, interwoven, all related... I split my life into these two things, thief and lady

A.C. Gaughen Lion Heart
I think life becomes a fabric of choices, interwoven, all related... I split my life into these two things, thief and lady

So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped by our stories. It's like the stories of our lives make us the people we are. If someone had no...

John Marsden The Night Is for...
So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped by our stories. It's like the stories of our lives make us the people we are. If someone had no stories, they wouldn't be human, wouldn't exist. And if my stories had been different I wouldn't be the person I am.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

Emil M. Cioran
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

In the space of solitude, a writer attempts to remember how they became whom they are but nobody's memory is up to this demanding task. No matter how much a person harrows the fertile lanes of memory,...

Kilroy J. Oldster Dead Toad...
In the space of solitude, a writer attempts to remember how they became whom they are but nobody's memory is up to this demanding task. No matter how much a person harrows the fertile lanes of memory, some memories are lost by the passage of time, psychological defense mechanisms screen other memories from detection, the ephemeral character of other memories are invariably too elusive to arrest with reciprocal language.

She had a sense of longing and loss that she had never had before. It was as if her family history had been erased and they'd been left unmemorable. She imagined that Rachel's family must have similar...

Denny Taylor Rosie's Umbrella
She had a sense of longing and loss that she had never had before. It was as if her family history had been erased and they'd been left unmemorable. She imagined that Rachel's family must have similar feelings, but she did not try to share these thoughts with Rachel.

In the words he's free, on the page he can be anything. A hero.

Lavie Tidhar The Violent...
In the words he's free, on the page he can be anything. A hero.

I will keep writing about these intersections as a writer and a teacher, as a black woman, as a bad feminist, until I no longer feel like what I want is impossible. I no longer want to believe that...

Roxane Gay Bad Feminist
I will keep writing about these intersections as a writer and a teacher, as a black woman, as a bad feminist, until I no longer feel like what I want is impossible. I no longer want to believe that these problems are too complex for us to make sense of them.

That, I decided, was what it meant to be a slave: your past didn't matter, in the present you were invisible and you had no claim on the future.

Lawrence Hill The Book of...
That, I decided, was what it meant to be a slave: your past didn't matter, in the present you were invisible and you had no claim on the future.

Our privileges are the things not within our own control that push us forward and move us ahead from that starting line. Acknowledging them does not mean you are admitting to doing something to...

Luvvie Ajayi
Our privileges are the things not within our own control that push us forward and move us ahead from that starting line. Acknowledging them does not mean you are admitting to doing something to contribute to someone's else oppression. It means that you recognize that some part of your identity puts you in a better position than others.

"You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.' 'We can't both be Alexander.' 'Well sometimes I think you're two sides of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between.'"

Orson Scott Card
"You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.' 'We can't both be Alexander.' 'Well sometimes I think you're two sides of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between.'"

Life consists of many different stories. A person has not just one but countless life stories that weave in between each other and together create exactly that specific life and that specific human...

Iben Dissing Sandahl The Danish Way...
Life consists of many different stories. A person has not just one but countless life stories that weave in between each other and together create exactly that specific life and that specific human being.

We can't help the way we're born. We can't help what we are, only what life we choose to make for ourselves.

Leigh Bardugo Wonder Woman:...
We can't help the way we're born. We can't help what we are, only what life we choose to make for ourselves.

When you open to me and I open to you, when we immerse you into me and I into you, when we lose you in me and I in you, Only then am I me and you are you.

Bernhard Schlink The Reader
When you open to me and I open to you, when we immerse you into me and I into you, when we lose you in me and I in you, Only then am I me and you are you.

"I'm Razo, a member of Bayern's Own," he said, stopping himself from adding "Loafing is just a hobby of mine." "Bayern's Own? But you're a child." Razo looked up to the sky. "I'm not a child, I'm just...

Shannon Hale River Secrets
"I'm Razo, a member of Bayern's Own," he said, stopping himself from adding "Loafing is just a hobby of mine." "Bayern's Own? But you're a child." Razo looked up to the sky. "I'm not a child, I'm just short."

You don't know what you are.

Holly Black The Iron Trial
You don't know what you are.

Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the...

Susan Cain Quiet: The Power...
Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much," a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Of course, there's another word for such people: thinkers.

I'm a liar. And I can't stop thinking about boys.

Meg Cabot Pants on Fire
I'm a liar. And I can't stop thinking about boys.
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