Quotes About Belonging

If you were asking me how it is to be a Muslim in America, it's much harder to be a North African in France than to be a foreigner here in America.

I am French. I was born here, I live here and France is my cultural identity.

My home is San Francisco - that is definitely what I consider my home.

The best tattooists are in San Francisco, and they're kind of like my family now. I'm always excited to come back to San Francisco.

As a person of color from the South, San Francisco was the first city that really made me feel like an other.

We don't know, ultimately, if we'll end up in San Francisco, but we're talking about keeping the house. It would be nice to always have a place here.

I don't want San Francisco to be just a place where people just move for opportunities.

San Francisco's my home town, you know.

I'm not sure anyone ever feels they belong in showbusiness. I think everyone feels a bit of a fraud, that one day they'll get rumbled.

Growing up in Fife, you were aware that there were these creatures called lesbians, but it was in the realms of complete freakishness. And I didn't feel like a freak.

How do I let go of Maplewood? It's like Shangri-la. It's so culturally diverse, and all my children are adopted - a transracial family. And we're not the freaks. Everybody flies their freak flag high in Maplewood!

I consider myself a free man and a citizen of the world.

I am a free man. I feel at home everywhere in Europe.

If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch.

The anglophones are Quebecers, as are the French, as are the new Quebecers.

I don't feel like I have to be nationalistic French because I'm afraid of losing whatever. No, no, no, no. And also I don't think we are the best.

I think that in France, we should do like the French people.

In my own life I'm frequently in predominantly white atmospheres.

I spent freshman year trying straightness on for size and failing miserably.

I've been in the industry forever, since I was a kid. It's a very LGBTQ-plus friendly industry and all my friends are gay or gay-straight, or trans-nonbinary, everything.

If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing.

When my friends and family call me Josie, it feels like I'm being seen. It's something everyone wants, to feel understood.

I feel very French and I need my life here; I need all my friends and family.

Everywhere I go I have a lot of friends and family.