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

-Fanon, Frantz Omar
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 Whoöor whatöput 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 Someoneöor Somethingöand from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.

-Hammarskjo«  ld, Dag HjalmarAgne Carl
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 usöhard, cold and misted over with my breath.Now they havetaken everything away.What am I doing in this place and who am I?

-Rhys,Jean pseudonym of  Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams
  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.öDon't puzzle me, said I.

-Sterne, Laurence
^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.

-West, Mae
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.

-Wriston,Walter Bigelow
  In the NewYorkTimes, 21 Apr.