Quotes About Belonging

Loners live among the mob, so the mob mistakes us for its own, presuming and assuming.

Peut-être sa plus grande fierté, ou même, la justification de son existence: que j'appartienne au monde qui l'avaint dédaigné.

J'allais aux cours de littérature et de sociologie, au restau U, je buvais des cafés midi et soir à la Faluche, le bar réservé aux étudiants. Je n'étais plus dans le même monde. Il y avait les autres filles, avec leurs ventres vides, et moi.

Je comprends ce désir de couvrir de cadeaux un être qu'on aime pour manifester l'appartenance (Proust, La prisonnière). Tout en sachant que cela ne sert pas à vous l'attacher, puisqu'il en est seulement fier (de susciter autant d'amour), que cela renforce son narcissisme, lequel joue contre celui qui donne. Ce dernier n'a pas assez de narcissisme. Enfin, moi je l'aime de tout mon vide.

J'ai fini de mettre au jour l'héritage que j'ai dû déposer au seuil du monde bourgeois et cultivé quand j'y suis entrée.

Peut-être sa plus grande fierté, ou même, la justification de son existence : que j'appartienne au monde qui l'avait dédaigné.

Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.

I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.

We are the Ovaltineys, Little [or Happy] girls and boys.

I would go to a team where I always felt happy - as a person, as a human being and as a family, because there I will be professionally better.

I call myself Zimerican. I was born in the Midwest to Zimbabwean parents. My father was a professor at Grinnell College in Iowa.

There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.

It's profound to watch a little African-American girl light up when she raps as George Washington and she realizes that Washington's story is her story. That this history belongs to all of us.

My half-breed culture informs everything I do but I'm not thinking about it. I'm just doing it. Not until very late in my career did I realize that I was so fortunate to just live with this profound pride in being half Mexican without being attacked for it.

I want to tell stories about Europe - I feel profoundly European, I don't feel like an American.

I spent a lot of time thinking that I was some kind of foundling, that I had been a changeling, that I had been found under a bush somewhere, and that I couldn't possibly be kin - but the more I live, the more I feel absolutely like I come out of my family. I'm a sort of strange natural progression.

I'm not partial to any system, but at the same time, I'm a Korean actor, so I expect to work mainly on Korean projects.

One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.

When I was growing up, white people made fun of me. So it was always strange to me as I would gain prominence in hip hop, white people kind of accepted me more and they would talk to me more. It's so weird to me, growing up, thinking about that in my life. It really is a complete change.

America belongs to all of us. The promise of America belongs to all of us.

I'm extremely proud of being Latin; it's a big part of my life. It's not something I outwardly promote, just like I don't outwardly promote that I have green eyes and blonde hair. It's a part of who I am. I love the richness of the culture I grew up within.

I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.

I'm a proper Essex girl because my family was part of that great exodus from the East End.

I love a kind of shambling outsider protagonist who always feels like they're 'other.'