“Identity, he believed, wad fluid not fixed.”

“America was never designed to be fixed forever, but was meant to be fluid and evolving.”

“I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end. ”

“Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.”

“Frankly, I believe that identity is what's inside us.”

“Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity, border crossing, subjectivity constructed out of plurality, the vast majority of folks in this society still believe in a notion of identity that is rooted in a sense of essential traits and characteristics that are fixed and static.”