Quotes About Belonging

It's very important to me to be an American poet, a Jewish poet, a poet who came of age in the 1960s.

Once I stop being a citizen of the U.S.S.R., I will not stop being a Russian poet.

In 'Blindspotting' I play a girl from Oakland, I've got an accent, I've got long, '90s 'Poetic Justice' braids, and in 'Monsters and Men' I play a girl from Brooklyn.

I think the poets and musicians, they belong to everybody.

Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.

Most people in their lives do feel like they are outsiders at some point.

If you are asking for my point of view, I would say that the Palestinians should go back to Palestine.

I spent the first 16 years of my life in Scotland. My whole family is there. It's in my blood and informs my sense of humour, my point of view, the people I choose to spend time with, everything.

Growing up in the U.S., music became a way for me to find my roots and anchor points.

I don't believe in post-racial or post-gay or post-anything, but I do think within a certain group of friends, what matters less is the specificities of race and sexuality, and what matters more is the shared experience, shared language and shared cultural touch points.

National identity is something that's directly connected to our personal experiences and the decisions we make, the roads we decide to take at certain points in our life.

Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman!

They're strange, the Aussies. Because if they like you, they say, 'Oh, he's an Aussie.' And I keep saying, 'I'm not, I'm from Preston.' There's nothing Australian about me. Don't start claiming me just because I've got a job over here.

I didn't blend well with my classmates or my teachers.

I went to bar mitzvahs as a kid. I had a lot of classmates who are Jewish.

I do feel like a Clevelander. Every time, when people ask me, I automatically say, 'My home is Cleveland.'

If I go anywhere else and win a championship, it's not going to be the same. I want to win a championship in Cleveland. That's where I want to stay. I love Cleveland.

Home is where the heart is, and my heart will forever be in Cleveland.

I am a Cleveland Brown. I am proud and happy about that.

I am forever a Cleveland Brown.

I'm from Cleveland. I love this place. I'm never going to leave.

I love being a Cleveland Brown.

Cleveland has been my life.

For me, I would say that the overarching reason that it's important for me to stay in Cleveland... when I was drafted here I really kind of embraced being a Clevelander.