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Tue 8 Aug 2023

Mask

Posted by PJ under identity, persona, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Underneath this mask, another mask. I will never be finished carrying all these faces.”

—Claude Cahun, quoted in The Guardian, 12 March 2017

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Wed 18 Jan 2023

West

Posted by PJ under cultural appropriation, identity, quote of the day, spirituality
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Random quote of the day:

“We belong to the West. The more we find in the East or anywhere else the more it makes us inwardly divided, homeless in our own land. We become cultural tramps and vagabonds. The solutions we find are never fundamental answers. They only create more problems.

—Peter Kingsley, In the Dark Places of Wisdom

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Wed 28 Oct 2020

Audra

Posted by PJ under boxes, identity, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“I’ve spent my whole career trying to stay out of any box that anyone could put me in. ‘I’m going to do a play now.’ ‘Now I’ll do a musical.’ That was my instinct. So I don’t feel boxed in. But ‘African-American woman’ is part of my identity. I don’t want to relinquish that—especially as a mother, helping my daughter find her identity.”

—Audra McDonald, The New York Times, July 10, 2016

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Tue 21 Jul 2020

Wanda

Posted by PJ under gay, identity, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Being gay is harder than being black….I didn’t have to come out black. I didn’t have to sit my parents down and tell them about my blackness.”

—Wanda Sykes, I’ma Be Me

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Thu 18 Jun 2020

Phonebook

Posted by PJ under identity, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“I went through every phone book in Africa, and I didn’t find one god damned Pryor!”

—Richard Pryor, Live At The Sunset Strip

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Fri 5 Jun 2020

Identity

Posted by PJ under identity, meaning, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

The world does not deliver meaning to you. You have to make it meaningful…and decide what you want and need and must do. It’s a tough, unimaginably lonely, and complicated way to be in the world. But that’s the deal: you have to live; you can’t live by slogans, dead ideas, clichés, or national flags. Finding an identity is easy. It’s the easy way out.

—Zadie Smith, On Beauty

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Wed 22 May 2019

Masks

Posted by PJ under identity, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them—the one, in fact, which is not a mask.”

—W. H. Auden, “One of the Family,” Forewards and Afterwords

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Laurel and Hardy, Ariana Grande, or the Salvation Army Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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