Quotes About Belonging

My cultural roots are something illusive.

Culture is the air we breathe all around us.

I've lived so many different Asian cultures.

I grew up in the States, but I go back to Brazil quite often, and a big part of me is very Brazilian, so there's a constant struggle between the two cultures within me. They're very different approaches to life.

America has many cultures which makes it great, but it's difficult to create one strong identity.

All my life, I have juggled two cultures: Senegalese and French.

I had the French culture at school and I love this culture but I also had another culture at home - that of Senegal. I think this way of growing up has made me the person I am today - because I had the two cultures.

I have no curiosity. I'm an island boy.

I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech.

No one calls me Belcalis except for my family, my mother, and my daddy.

I am a proud, not Texan, but a citizen of Dallas.

Troy Aikman has always felt like a Dallas Cowboy to me.

I'm damn proud to be a Seattle Mariner.

When we did 'Air Dance,' I thought we were actually quite courageous doing that because it's not necessarily quote-unquote a Black Sabbath song. But I don't give a damn about that because it is part of Black Sabbath; it is a Black Sabbath song.

People love having a home. People love going to their house and sleeping in their bedroom and having a conversation around the dinner table. You don't particularly think of that conversation as a private conversation; you just think of it as something that happened in your home.

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.

As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.

I sat at the popular table, but I always felt really geeky.

I was what's known as a floater. I could sit at the edge of most cafeteria tables, but was never a part of any one group. I was also a dork. And still am. And proud!

But now all of a sudden some idiots in Taiwan start to say that they are not Chinese. Their grand parents were Chinese. But for some reason, they feel they are not Chinese.

I remember going to Taiwan for the first time and... I didn't realize that everyone looked like me here and what that'd feel like.

I'm just so happy to see my friends and fans in Taiwan, 'cause that's where I'm from.

You can take the guy out of the neighorhood but you can't take the neighborhood out of the guy.

You can take a man out of Ireland, but you can't take the Irishness out of the man.