Quotes About Belonging

One of the things I love most about Lib Dem members is that for all our policy disagreements, we agree on why we're Lib Dems in the first place.

That's why I created Smart Girl Club in the first place because I really wanted to combat the non-inclusion that I felt in a lot of places.

When I read Alison Bechdel's 'Fun Home,' it was the first time I saw drawings that looked like me.

I always say that I've grown little flaps on a stage and I've got these little gills that open, because on the stage I'm in my element and I'm like a fish that's come out when I'm on land, which is filming. I'm never quite as comfortable as I am on the stage.

I belong to the Flatbush Avenue Fishing Club.

I just want to fit in and win games for my team.

I never really fit in anywhere.

Everybody is different; as long as you look like you belong and you can fit in, the world is you oyster now.

I still fit in with the hillbillies!

But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always going to be you and if they don't like you for who you are, then what's the point of being someone else?

Where I fit in is confusing to me.

A fantasy is a world where anyone fits in.

I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.

I have never fitted neatly into the arts section, I don't think.

In many ways, not fitting in has been a comedic asset and a comedic resource.

Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any place.

If you've lived in England for five years, for me, it doesn't make you English.

If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate.

My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness that it stung all the more to still find myself outside of it. My mother, on the other hand, not only accepted that she would always be an outsider in this country but also believed it to be a finer fate and home than any other she could have had.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

Since I got to this country when I was 12, I've been obsessed with this idea of whiteness and blackness because I realized I was neither. For me, it was so important to me to make a film that focused on whiteness because you wouldn't have blackness if you didn't have whiteness.

Well, I think that I have a complicated relationship with whiteness because oftentimes, I pass as white, and I recognize that. I would be disingenuous to pretend that I don't pass as white.

Again and again, I find something eerie in many Irish occasions - the unrelenting whiteness, the emotional tribal attachments, the violent prejudices lurking beneath apparently pleasant social surfaces, the cosy smugness of belonging.

I don't identify as white. I have a complex relationship with whiteness.