Quotes About Belonging

I've discovered my Jewishness late in life. And I've really enjoyed exploring that world.

Music was a means through which I could meet people and sort of begin the process of exploring who I was or who I could be.

You expressed yourself by looking different from other people. We even looked different from each other. But among the Exis, there was a close group of us, Klaus Voormann, Jurgen Wollmer and me. Klaus and I always wore black.

Tell me, who doesn't want to have a family to extend himself/herself?

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended family.

Of course I can imagine extending my contact at Dortmund. I have always said how at home I feel here.

Your home should be an extension of you and who you are as a person. If you can come home, and actually feel at home... that's fantastic design.

People talk about alienation in the city. Diners are a place where you feel comfortable, an extension of your house.

To step out at Craven Cottage - week in, week out - as a local boy is just extra special.

We are not racists or extremists in the Front National. We are people who love our country.

The only thing I know about being Asian is that my hair is black and my eyelashes are straight and I have strange eyebrows.

My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.

Being a lesbian is part of the very fabric of my being.

Suddenly, Dallas has become a big part of my life, and now I feel like I'm part of the fabric of the community here.

Part of the fabric of America is that we have people from different countries who've come here and they are American, and yet they embrace their home ancestral culture. And this is their new home. And that's part of what makes this country unique in the history of human beings on this earth.

There are a lot of challenges I undeniably have faced as a black person both in the U.K. and in the U.S. that contrived to make me feel lesser than what I am.

I had a funny last name, and I didn't look like everybody else, and I got faced with a lot of racism.

There's a sense of family in Colorado; there's such a pride factor there.

I almost shouldn't be in Limp Bizkit; it's like I got matched in the factory with the wrong band.

When you live away from your family, your friends and faculty become your family.

I was fairly young when we moved to Santa Fe, but it wasn't long after that I started to figure out who I was, and that entire process took place in this city.

I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.

In the late '70s, I was falling into the middle lane. I was way too country to be rock, and way too rock to be a country act.

I guess I could take things from every place that I've been and find something familiar and wonderful about it that makes me feel like I'm at home.