„I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or chisel to remind you of your me-ness as I discover you in myself.“

— Audre Lorde
„Who do you think I am, girl? If you could pick all the words of the vocabulary that your mother taught you, who do you think I am? And this is only a couple hours, can you imagine what it would be like a couple days with me? I live a hundred years a day.“
— Charles Manson
„For if you feel for me as i do for you - then I am asking you to tear out your heart and live without it.“
— Diana Gabaldon
„Didn't I tell you?I am an ocean, you are a fish;do not go to the dry land,it is me, who is your comforting body of water.“
— Rumi
„Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.“
— Chinua Achebe
„I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again / I am to see to it that I do not lose you“
— Walt Whitman
„All I want, is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I love you - just because I am.“
— Diana Gabaldon
„What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.“
— Ludwig Van Beethoven