Alfred Korzybski Quotes

I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.

I say, 'I'm bi, my love knows no gender,' and the straight community says, 'Oh right, that's just a cover-up - you're gay!' And the gay community says, 'Yeah right, that's just a cover-up - you're gay.' They both want to push me gay.

No, I'm not gay.

I don't believe that my first name is Leo or that my last name is Tolstoy. I'm a storyteller.

First of all, I'm not gay. Second of all, it shouldn't make a difference if I was or if I wasn't.

A wrestler will always be a wrestler, and they will always go back to the basics.

Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.

I'm German but I didn't say that. I have no moustache.

I am not in the closet. I am not coming out of the closet. I am not gay.

We can drop the fundamental hope that there is a better "me" who one day will emerge. We can't just jump over ourselves as if we were not there.

Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.

Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.

The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it is a dramatic effect arising diffusely from a scene that is presented.

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.

He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.

Subjects who reciprocally recognize each other as such, must consider each other as identical, insofar as they both take up the position of subject; they must at all times subsume themselves and the other under the same category. At the same time, the relation of reciprocity of recognition demands the non-identity of one and the other, both must also maintain their absolute difference, for to be a subject implies the claim of individuation.

There are two kinds of homeland: one that is given is like a negative, and one that you have to conquer is like the positive.

I am not gay. I don't do these kinds of things.

I want to be a monster too.

Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.

As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice.

We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human.

True change is a long game, and it remains to be seen if this is change. We've had years before where there have been great years for filmmakers and performers of color, LGBTQ filmmakers and performers, women.

It is not that I belong to the past, but the past that belongs to me.

When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.