Quotes About Belonging

Once a refugee, always a refugee. I can't ever remember not being all right wherever I was, but you don't give your whole allegiance to a place or want to be entirely identified with the society you're living in.

It's a small community, the classical music community, along with the excitement of new places and new things and this feeling of being at home wherever you go because that's where your community is.

I've always had this feeling wherever I go. Of not feeling fully part of things, not fully accepted, not fully inside of something.

The strange thing - and this is one of the advantages of being incredibly shallow and superficial - is that wherever I am, that's sort of home.

I feel at home wherever Sting is - he's my home.

I've often felt I don't belong quite wherever I am.

I feel at home wherever I am, to be honest.

It's so hard to know where you belong, ever. You have to be yourself and let yourself fall wherever you fall.

I kind of feel like a global citizen - wherever I go, I have friends, so I don't get too lonely.

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

While loneliness has the potential to kill, connection has even more potential to heal.

If you are in a movie theater, you can look two people down and they are laughing while you are laughing or you can look three people down and they love that song that you love. It is living proof that you are not alone.

Growing up in the U.S., I'd siloed off my identities. While I was an Indian at home, I was an American at school. I have now embraced both the identities.

I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.

I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally an American writer according to the whims and needs of my interpreters.

Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.

I'm light-skinned. I'm mixed with black and white.

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong.

You always want what you can't have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born, I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.

I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it.