Quotes About Belonging

When I go back to NFL functions today, I feel a bit on the outside looking in. I played 13 years in the NFL, and I loved it - made a Pro Bowl and went to the playoffs - but I always felt like I was having to knock the door down to get in.

I have been a Bruin since the start of my pro career and there is no place I would rather play.

I am a hardcore Bihari boy. I am born and brought up in Bihar, and for me, ethnicity is not a problem and is inbuilt in me.

In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.

People all over the world know me as an Indian artist. I could have chosen any other country and wouldn't have had to go through problems claiming my citizenship. But it is India where my heart is and has always been.

I think I'm a people person. I get very attached to people. And I've become so attached to all the people on my show, the cast, the crew and the producers.

I'm a product of Russian culture, but I never felt it was my country.

I'm a product of a fragmented world.

People are hungry for community. They're hungry for meaning in a society that is oriented around the production and consumption of consumer goods.

I'm not familiar with an unaccepting family. But in my profession, nothing can be foreign.

I go to many different places many times, but I miss my house constantly.

We might all come from different places, but home means something - something powerful - to each of us.

Being proud and being nationalistic are, for me, completely different things.

I am many different things, and that is why I am so proud to be American.

There are different things to wear in different places, and if you want to fit in and show respect, you can dress to do that, or you can dress to show that you are foreign and not from there. That can work, too.

It's hard enough being American and trying to make it in an American world, but being Australian, you're from a whole different country and have a whole different way of doing things.

Staten Island is like a different world. If you're from Staten Island, you're like not from New York, you're from Staten Island.

As a Black woman and a Black person my experience has been very different. I have a deep love and connection for my country and my culture, but I also had a lot of difficulty growing up there.

The difficulty of being Afro-Latina, in general, is the lack of acceptance in both communities.

I don't diminish the idea of being American, but what I embrace is the idea of being human.

I have written about cultural dislocation, and I understand the corrosive effect of diminished expectations.

I am constantly disappointing people up in Scotland by not being Scottish!

I didn't live in the world of disco or the world of the Eagles.

Products are a way to connect with - or disconnect from - who you are.