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  • Le colonialisme accule le peuple domine   a'   se poser constamment la question: 'Qui suis-je en re  alite  ?' Colonialism forces the people it dominates to ask themselves the question constantly: 'In reality, who am I?' f

    - Frantz Omar Fanon
    Les Damne  s de la terre ( The Wretched of the Earth, translated by Constance Farrington,1965), ch.5,'Colonial War and Mental Disorders'.

  •    I didn't know Whoor whatput the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someoneor Somethingand from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.

    - Dag HjalmarAgne Carl Hammarskjo«  ld
    Va«  gmarken (translated by L Sjsy«  berg and W H  Auden as Markings,1964).

  • There is no looking-glass here and I don't know what I am like now. I remember watching myself brush my hair and how my eyes looked back at me. The girl I saw was myself and yet not quite myself. Long ago when I was a child and very lonely I tried to kiss her. But the glass was between ushard, cold and misted over with my breath.Now they havetaken everything away.What am I doing in this place and who am I?

    -Jean pseudonym of  Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams Rhys
      The consciousness of Antoinette Mason/Bertha Rochester at a point of intersection with the text of Jane Eyre. Wide Sargasso Sea, pt.3.

  • And who are you? Said he.Don't puzzle me, said I.

    - Laurence Sterne
    ^67  Tristram to the commissary.Tristram Shandy, bk.7, ch.33.

  • I've been in Who's Who and I know what's what, but it's the first time I ever made the dictionary.

    - Mae West
    Reputedly said on learning that a life jacket was to be named after her.

  • When you retire†you go from who's who to who's that.

    -Walter Bigelow Wriston
      In the NewYorkTimes, 21 Apr.

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