Quotes About Belonging

In this day and age of racial tension, gender fluidity, and political polarization, how do you most define yourself?

God's grace is available to everybody. Period. His is an unconditional, wholly inclusive affection. There is no skin color, country of origin, or medical condition that can make you incompatible with the love of Jesus Christ!

Love transcends blood ties, it pays no heed to time or space, much less mere geography.

I am all the daughters of my father's house, And all the brothers too. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night, ACT 2, SCENE 4

When you lose your home country, what do you preserve and what do you abandon?

People keep asking me why I don't return to China. I tell them I can't return to a place I've never been. In

We've tried to keep her connected to her Chinese background and we've always felt really good about that, but what if, instead of building her Chinese identity, it's only served to make her feel separate from us and not 100 percent our daughter?

Afterward we recited the entire poem together. The bed is lit by moonlight I think it is the light of an early winter morning Looking up, I enjoy the full moon in the night sky Bending over, I miss my hometown We all know that poem is about a scholor who is traveling and missing his home, but on that night and forever after I believed it was about us. Snow Flower was my home and I was hers.

I know I'm the most precious person in my family, but I wasn't precious enough for my birth family to keep me as their one child.

My home is here with this family I've built from scraps of tragedy.

Ah, gym class. Remember it? Institutionally sanctioned torture for society's misfits.

This is your home," her mother said. "Wherever I am, that's where you belong.

After all, beneath the surface of it, isn't that what we're all looking for? We may say we're looking for love, following dreams, chasing the dollar, but aren't we just looking for a place where we belong? A place where our thoughts, feelings, and fears are understood?

He wondered what it would be like to grow up in one place and stay there all your life, to forever be defined by your childhood relationships, to never know if you got to be the person you wanted to be, to always be the person you were when you were young.

We may say we're looking for love, following dreams, chasing the dollar, but aren't we just looking for a place where we belong? A place where our thoughts, feelings, and fears are understood?

The Clique.... the only thing harder than getting in is staying in.

The Clique... The only thing harder then getting in is staying in.

The Clique.... the only thing harder than getting in is saying goodbye.

True kinship has naught to do with blood ties, however strong they be. I think we are all kin, brothers and sisters one to the other, all children of all parents.

In other words our own earliest sense of self-identity is associated with learning the language of our cultural womb.

It's not true. I need all of you. We need each other.

It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.

No. But why would I go back? I had found a home here, the way everyone has. That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a new place from what we had learned and carried from the old.

They spoke of the history of Village, how each of them there had fled poverty and cruelty and been welcomed at this new place that had taken them in.