Besides inquiries as to our general well-being, the first thing asked about us, in our first seconds of being alive, is whether we're a boy or girl. Our first passport through this world is our genitals.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.
We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.
All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.
Life starts at conception and must be protected from the first moment.
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.
My face is my passport.
Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.
I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design.
I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?'