Quotes About Belonging

I've discovered home is not a place anymore. It's the people around you.

So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.

A lot of people have had good discussions about what it means to be American, and we need to broaden our definition.

There is no disillusionment about India as far as I am concerned. There could never come a time when I would get disillusioned with my own country.

It seems disrespectful to my parents who left... to hear their story over and over again which always ends with... 'and I'll never go back as long as anyone in the Castro family is in power.' Well, what happens if you can go back? Would you want to see things?

When I got done at Duke, I almost felt ashamed of it. I almost tried to distance myself from being the Duke guy.

I have a distinct memory of friends I had at school whose parents were, for want of a better word, bohemian. That was the kind of England that I thought I should have belonged to.

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

People with disabilities are simply part of diverse communities in the U.S.

I've always liked that idea of a diverse group of audience members sitting together, rubbing up against each other and taking on the life of a culture that doesn't belong to either one of them.

People don't want to be diverse, or they're scared to be diverse. People just dress a certain way to fit in but sometimes being outside of the box is the cool thing to do.

Latin America is not that different from the rest of the world. Some of us have been trying to get from the edges into the centre, but we're very few. The world is still very resistant to understanding the diversity of human beings.

Diversity is more than just a buzzword to me. It's my life.

I don't consider Mumbai-Delhi as India. The grass-rooted diversity of U.P.-Bihar is the real India.

I don't much mind being expelled from communities.

The only real shaming I've ever experienced has been from other gay people when I reveal my politics or my religion.

Kids have to experiment a little or figure out where they belong.

I don't want my kids to have to walk through a world where they have to constantly explain who they are and who their family is.

When I took my kids to see the house that we're buying I took them in the car to the estate I grew up on. I got the kids out of the car and explained that this is where they're from.

I do a lot of explaining of where I'm from to Americans.

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

I don't relate to what is seen as 'Arab culture.' I relate to what I explore myself, what is around me.

'Mudbound,' you know, is about home. 'Mudbound' is about what it means to be a citizen, and 'Mudbound,' in fact, is set in this post-reconstruction era that we haven't really explored. You know, not since 'Sounder' have we even really explored that experience.

In terms of exploring an identity in the country music world, what I realized very quickly was that there are people who have been performing country music since they were kids. It's very much a part of who they are; very much that jazz and blues are a part of who I am, because I grew up listening to and playing that kind of music.