Identity

“I am not a Communist now. I never have been. I never wanted to be.”

“Sou um instrumento da minha arte, sou meu próprio violino.”

“I’m not a robot. I want people to know that I’m real.”

“My life was political from the beginning.”

“A Poet and Poetry form a certain concept of culture, while a person continues to live as a private individual.”

“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.”

“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.”

“My grandfather’s mind worked like mine—bing, bing, bing.”

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