Quotes About Belonging

Everybody has culture, even white people have culture, but its different with me. So in high school, I was hanging out with the black and Hispanic kids. I'm not hating on white people. I hang with white people, too, but that's where I felt most accepted because I could relate to them more.

I'm a white girl and not a white girl, identified by other people as black and not black for as long as I can remember - which, in mixed-people speak, means biracial.

I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.

In this country, there is a segregation of Black Turks and White Turks. Your brother Tayyip belongs to the Black Turks.

To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.

It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?

I can dine at the White House, but I can still hang at the 'hood.

I hope that anyone facing or experiencing discrimination will, first of all, take to heart that this is not their fault, and they are not alone in this. Secondly, I hope they find ways to plug into communities to help prevent negative feelings of discrimination from festering.

I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn.

I love that sense of discovery. You're experiencing something for the first time, and your parents aren't in on it, previous generations aren't in on it. It has a chance to belong to you and your generation in a way that nothing has. If 'Pacific Rim' is a fraction of that, I would be very proud.

At 'Price Is Right,' people feel so safe there and loved. And if you can't jump around on 'Price is Right,' then you can't jump around anywhere, you know?

What everybody forgets is that when I was a journalist in Britain and in the United States, I was always a Canadian. And the price of expatriation does not go down, it goes up. I never felt part of the political common sense of Britain. I never felt it in the United States. I had no natural home in Britain and the U.S.

I have 100 percent Bronx pride, like it's a country, like I am the Bronx.

What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.

I feel pride in being a Greenlander.

I'm an American citizen now, but I will always have Canadian pride.

My Judaism has always been a great pride with me.

Being told that I looked like I belonged everywhere and to everyone helped me feel my fledgling pride in my own multiracialism.

I've always said that there's a bit of a different sense of pride when you're playing for your national team.

When you're from the islands, that's that pride.

I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride.

I love this city. There's Cleveland pride in it for me. Everyone has each other's backs here.

I take full pride in the fact that I'm from Chandigarh.

I pride myself on being Japanese American.