#entity

It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation. ↗

— Alex Grey

#consciousness #expanse #here #identity #innermost

Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't bother anyone when it ends so quickly. Or if a song runs 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but the titles run a minute longer, you have to arrange that song so it doesn't get repetitious. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

#arrange #bother #ends #entity #film

The music becomes something that is its own entity. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

#entity #music #own #something

I fall in love with Paraíso. It’s like a giant playground where I’m never scolded for running around recklessly, where I’m almost overwhelmed with the amount of attention and love I receive from Mami’s family. In New York, I’m invisible. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#coming-of-age #family #home #identity #invisibility

Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals. ↗

— Harry Hay

#giving #homosexuals #identity #ideological #politics

Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity. ↗

— Rachel Hunter

#felt #find #had #i #identity

I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies. ↗

— LL Cool J

#about #cool #figure #had #how

Instead of saying that all gender is this or all gender is that, let's recognize that the word gender has scores of meaning built into it. It's an amalgamation of bodies, identities, and life experiences, subconscious urges, sensations, and behaviors, some of which develop organically, and others which are shaped by language and culture. Instead of saying that gender is any one single thing, let's start describing it as a holistic experience. ↗

— Kate Bornstein

#gender-identity #transgender #experience

Depression is about anger, it is about anxiety, it is about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique. It is the illness of identity, it is the illness of those who do not know where they fit, who lose faith in the myths they have so painstakenly created for themselves. [...] It is a plague - especially if you add in its various forms of expression, like alcoholism, anorexia, bulimia, drug addiction, compulsive behaviour of one kind or another. They're all the same things: attempts to avoid disappearance, or nothingness, or chaos. ↗

— Tim Lott

#depression #faith #identity #anger

We’re afraid the others will think we’re agringadas because we don’t speak Chicano Spanish. We oppress each other trying to out-Chicano each other, vying to be “real” Chicanas, to speak like Chicanos. There is no one Chicano language just as there is no one Chicano experience. ↗

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

#chicano #chicanos #identity #internalized-racism #experience