Rachel Kushner Quotes

I've always been very conscious of who I am.

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

We all have a wrong idea of ourselves. I am always changing, and I will continue to change. So, I never try to describe, define or judge myself.

I have no issues with my identity.

Money doesn't transform a person - the only thing that can is love.

What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.

I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

I'm quite looking forward to the fact that people know me as Richard rather than Craig.

I didn't want to have to deal with having any moniker or separation between the self that I see and know myself as.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

At some point, when I finished school in Zurich, I suddenly realised that I was nobody. I couldn't find a shape. Everything I was had been invented. Initially, I took it to be a fundamental conflict. But today I find pleasure in accepting that this thing called 'identity' is the true invention. There's no way that it really exists.

I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike.

I thought I was the wrong shape: that Miss Marple would be much fluffier than me, much more wearing shawls and things. But I was persuaded, and now, well - I can only do it my way.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.

I see that people now recognize me in the street. But it doesn't change me in the depth of my being.

I know what my identity is.

Victor Stone's story is one of acceptance - of self and others. Also, accepting his father for the person he once was, absent from his life until he turned him into Cyborg. And acceptance of oneself in that he is both Cyborg and Victor Stone simultaneously.

More people know who I am, but I don't feel any different within myself - I think that's the main thing.

That's something that is important to me, that people know me and understand me.

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

I'm reminded of who I am, who I was, and who I'm supposed to be.