“While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.” ThinkingFeelsI CanHomeAmericaMy OwnCitiesNew YorkIdentityLabelsRejectsNew York CityConstructs Book:Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina Source: Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
“We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators. The reason why we believe that we are in it, that we belong to the picture, is that our bodies are in the picture. Our bodies belong to it. Not only my own body, but those of my friends, also of my dog and cat and horse, and of all the other people and animals. And this is my only means of communicating with them.” PeopleWorldBelieveMeanReasonBodyMy OwnAnimalDogMaterialsMy FriendsCatHorseCommunicateReason WhyConstructsMy DogSpectatorsMaterial WorldCat And Dog Author:Erwin Schrodinger
“I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.” WantedUsedHouseMy OwnBuildingDrawsArchitectConstructs Author:Boyd Holbrook
“Maybe because I can't even put together an IKEA desk, I've never been tempted to think of my own poems as built objects - but I do sometimes imagine them as mathematical constructs.” ThinkingI CanSometimesTogetherMy OwnImagineObjectsBuiltMathematicalDesksConstructsTemptedBecause I CanIkea Author:James Arthur