Quotes About Belonging

I'm from the DMV. I grew up in Maryland my whole life and I was born in Washington D.C.

I remember distinctly not seeing myself. I didn't see myself in black culture, white culture, mass culture.

I have not played that many matches for India, but whenever I play in Bengaluru, I feel it is like my home. I have taken wickets here.

Love yourself no matter who you are or where you come from.

I used to dream about being able to sit at a table with another human being, have a normal conversation, and have a meal with normal cutlery, and have normal moments.

Canton has meant a lot to me.

If people don't like who you are, they aren't meant to be in your life.

Love means home. It's where you're meant to be.

I think we are all individuals at the end of the day. There's nothing about culture that can prescribe who you're meant to be.

I think a lot of what I've done is about people feeling as if they are part of the world but also not part of it at the same time. I don't know whether that's from being a gay kid, but I definitely think that resonates with me.

It's very nice to be part of an organization that you enjoyed and respected.

People really respond when given an opportunity to take part in something.

Home is where your rump rests.

I love creating that community and writing about that place, because I think, in some ways, Bois Sauvage is like the DeLisle of my past; it's like the DeLisle of the '80s that I can never return to. So in some ways, when I write about Bois Sauvage, I'm writing about a home that I've lost.

I was lucky to grow up in a family where your parents loved you no matter what you were or what you came out as, and a lot of kids don't have that ride.

People do get ridiculed for liking us or because they look the way they do and they're a part of what we do.

I am not only neither Christian nor Jewish, but said to be in between, and I feel the same way about being from the South and being from the North. I write with my left hand but I throw a ball with my right hand.

I don't know that I would say I've felt like a 58-year-old, but I've never felt exactly my age, or in the right place.

It was easier to act, in a way, than to be myself. Somehow I just felt I was in the right place.

No Gabonese must be left by the side of the road.

There were absolutely times in my life when I tried to get people to call me Robert.

Just to know that the people in my city are really rocking with me, I just love it.

I got to know the world of football fans and their pride in it, how they would find a family away from home. Most of them came from broken families. It always had a bit of romance to me, when I went to the game with all these boys that would just die for each other.

I can't write about NRI romances.