I took this thought to another level and removed race. What do we pass for daily? Happy? Strong? Outcast? Strange? Flawless? Our identities are constantly being compromised in order to fit into what the world says we should be.
My advice, don't get so lost in what you are passing for that you lose or neglect who you actually are. If you're not happy, don't be. I'm not saying be a walking storm cloud, but we should be honest with ourselves, our feelings, our emotions, our past, and our futures.
...but what do I know?
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~e.e. cummings, 1955
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~Judy Garland
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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