Quotes About Belonging

I'm just happy to be part of the family, the decathlon family.

In the deep corner of my heart, I'm a Chicagoan, but it's been covered over by 20 years of living in the Bay Area.

What I write comes from a place of deep love, and a deep understanding of all kinds of otherness.

I think it is very possible that my deeper character is not very English.

One of our deepest needs is to be at home.

Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.

Whatever you define family as, family is just a part of belonging to something that takes care of you and nurtures you... and when you have lost that, and you want to get that back, it's pretty easy to get emotional about it.

'Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.

I define myself by my family: my parents or my brother or sister and their families.

The party is defined by the people that are in it, not necessarily the politicians.

For me, a place is defined by the kind of people inhabiting it.

The downside to defining everything Chinese as different than American is that all things Chinese then become exotic.

I always think about race as a part of one's identity, not the whole of one's identity. You don't want it to be the defining characteristic of a character. There has to be more.

I am definitely a person of color.

Delhi is like my second home.

Delhi - the entire north - has given me so much love. It has given me an identity, so I have no shame in being called a Delhi dude.

My place is cemented in Malayalam films. Malayalam is not my language and it felt alien to me. But for them, I am someone from Karnataka who could deliver.

We help kids and fans of all ages find their social scenes. Find their place. Find their demeanor.

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

My husband and I, we are not Democrat or Republican first. We are Americans first.

I'm proud to be a Democrat.

Americans don't want to see our military become Republican or Democrat. Americans appreciate that our military belongs to all of us.

I was lifelong Democrat just because, well, you know, monkey-see, monkey-do. I was just doing everything that my family was doing.

Even though I'm a Democrat, I'm an independent - a small 'I' - Democrat, meaning that I'm a Mississippian first.