Identity

“درست است که من دور از وطنم هستم اما نه هیچ‌وقت وطنم ایران را فراموش کرده‌ام و نه هموطنانم را.”

“All of us are Filipinos not only because we are brothers in blood—but because we are all brothers in tears.”

“However well I readjust myself to life in America, my youth, the best part of it, lies ever in the Orient.”

“Já jsem si vždycky přál spíš nedospět, zůstat klukem.”

“A lot of the music I write is autobiographical, but it is not that black and white.”

“Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories.”

“As a homosexual I have always known what it is to be an outsider.”

“We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.”

“I sound like me. But that’s also exactly what they taught us.”

“العائلة كلها مشتق اسمها من شكوكو، وطُلب مني تغيير اسمي، لكنني رفضت.”

“تكون طائفتنا الوحيدة هي سوريا”

““Nonobjective creation” is not only a movement or a tendency in painting, but also a new ideology.”

“There’s no such a thing as Australian art because there’s probably no such a thing as Australia.”

“Chile empieza a pensar en lo que es y en lo que será.”

“Am I not preparing for the great object of embellishing the tongue of my fathers?”

“The pulse of the Negro world has begun to beat in Harlem.”

“In all my stories, in all my work, I do NOT write about the Filipino, I write about MAN.”

“Tenemos la sociedad adentro.”