Quotes About Belonging

I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard.

I am delighted to be back home in Galway, the place I first came to as a 19-year-old in 1960. It's here where my heart is and will forever be.

London can be quite lonely and a hard place to live, but I do love it. It is where I forged my way to live. It is where I call home.

What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough?

My family grew up in Florence. There I became what I am now, and those are things that cannot be forgotten.

My family belonged to a very particular formation - middle-class and coloured, not black. That meant it had a closer connection to the plantocracy than many other people did. So I didn't feel like an ordinary black Jamaican boy.

I'm definitely Australian and wouldn't have it any other way. I've been formed as an athlete in Australia.

Everything I do is true to the person I am. To me, there's not too much distinction between Elias and my former name.

Forming communities - even and especially ones based on strong loyalties and allegiances - is in our DNA. It's what's kept us alive for millions of years.

I grew up in China, but I live in the U.S. and I want my children to understand what's going on over there. They ask me sometimes, 'Are we Chinese or Australians?' My family are in L.A., New York and China, and they have the freedom to go back and forth, which is really, really nice.

I could live in a community like 'Fortitude.'

My foster mother wanted to create a family home. For me, she had made a place that I felt I could always go back to, and that was what she was trying to do for these kids.

I love the city and the people here. I've been with them for many years and I fought alongside them.

Our culture is the foundation for our company.

When we founded Airbnb in 2008, our dream was to help create a world where you could belong anywhere, and that vision has taken root in almost every country in the world.

I started out in the ballroom scene when I was fourteen years old.

I have a European frame of mind and Europe is my home.

I don't live in France; I live in myself.

I was born in France. I grew up in Africa.

France is my home.

I think there is a problem in France that anyone who is not European, you want to know where they come from and why do they come from somewhere or why they speak English or why they are human. That's the big barrier for all of us that are coming from some far, far away countries. But at the end of the day, we are all artists.

I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture.

My parents live there, and I was born and raised in Scotland. I lived there for the first 11 years of my life, until my parents decided to take our family to France where we lived for a couple of years. We then moved back to Scotland, and that is where I feel most home - where I come back to myself, and I love more than I can say.

France is my home; you are my family. I am carrying all of you in my heart.