Rachel Kushner Quotes

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

The line between what I really am, and what I am on reel, is slowly diminishing.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

We are what we think we are - not what we appear to be on the outside.

People are the story they tell themselves.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

There is real danger of a disconnect between what's on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it's not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.

That's the way I feel, at least: like there's a real me and a reflection of me, and I have no way of telling which is which.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

I am myself a fabulous fake.

You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

I often don't feel like the person I look like.

I could easily not be the person that people know.

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

To me, self-description is a calamity.

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

The authenticity thing has never been an issue for me.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

I'm American; I was born and raised in America, and I don't want to fake who I am to fit a stereotype.

I am whatever you want me to be and I can't control that. My experience is my experience, but I can't really claim anything. I know when I take my wig off at night and I have to twist my hair up, I'm black. But I don't get too personal most of the time.

I would love to break away from my comic image.

There's who you think you are and who you want to be, and then who you actually are.

Beauty is the idea of who you truly are.