Quotes About Belonging

I consider the West Coast home, but Milwaukee is still a special place.

My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.

I miss West Virginia very much.

As those who have spent time in West Virginia know, this is truly a special place.

I'm still very much a West Virginia boy. I haven't forgotten my roots, because that's really who I am.

Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans.

We think of immigration as a Western issue but, of course, it isn't.

When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.

When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.

I lived for 30 years in the U.S., but always kept my Islamic and Iranian culture and customs... even now, western lifestyle feels strange to me.

People long to help each other, to be together, to share experiences, to be part of a community, to influence the powers that control their lives.

I've been living in Mumbai for a long time now, and the city has grown on me and even become my home for all practical reasons. But I'll always be a Vizag girl at heart.

It's just so funny that when I was growing up, I was very much of an Australian. I just thought it was funny that there was this war, like, 'No, she's ours, she's practically a Miss Australia.' But I am a Miss Philippines.

I came from a family that was pretty insularly Cherokee. We kept to ourselves - the white people were there, and we were here, and it was practically a segregated kind of thing.

But at school, I wasn't athletic, and if you're not athlete in high school, it's kind of hard to find your place, so play practice seemed perfect, especially if you were as uncoordinated as I was.

I'm not a practicing Jew but my great-grandparents were. It's part of our family history.

I'm not British. I'm not American. I'm not French. Whatever thing they practise, that is their business. I am an African. I am Rwandese.

I'm very much an Arab, although I need to practise my Arabic more.

I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.

'Sesame Street' early on and then 'Little House on the Prairie' was a big deal in our house. I always identified with 'Little House' because they were wanderers, and there was something about being an immigrant.

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

Gay folks go to church. We pray to the Lord too.

At college, I became friends with this girl who was a 'cool Christian.' They did street dance, then they prayed. It became my whole world. I had Christian friends. I went to Christian parties.

I mean, I just felt like Alabama fit me the best. What Coach Saban preaches about it all the time and what his players represent, I wanted to be a part of that.