Quotes About Belonging

The important thing is to try to stay connected with friends and family.

Friendship is such an important thing to me, and I feel like the people who I love and help keep me whole - I can't imagine a life without them.

When I was at a tough inner-city school, drama gave me a friendship group. It's been so core to who I am and given me such confidence later in life.

It was the camaraderie and the friendships, too, that really drew me to Queensbridge.

Hope will be found by understanding that diversity is the essence of the American Dream and why we need each other to fulfill it.

I was very lucky in that my parents were very broad-minded. Because they had come from another country and hadn't been able to fulfill their dreams, they wanted me to be more of myself, if you know what I mean.

What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others.

I feel more like an American citizen now than I ever had, and it's artistically fulfilling.

Very few things in life are more fulfilling than being part of a team and knowing you're a part of something bigger than your own self-interest.

It's very hard to be black in this country and hate America. It's really hard to live like that. I would actually argue it's impossible to fully see yourself.

I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.

I think it is just a function of the fact that I moved around so much as a child that I learnt early on to make every place my home.

Some people, you can see that they're in a house just because it functions OK for them. It checks the boxes for certain things that they need, but you can tell that they're not emotionally connected to the house.

My stories are fundamentally about the love of family.

To be white in President Trumps America is to fundamentally belong.

America has had an influence on me, as has going out with a Cuban-American guy and having lots of American friends. But I am still fundamentally British and speak with a British accent and feel very English.

I think, fundamentally, Man Repeller is a voice for women to connect with; they can come and try it on for size and be a part of it, and if it works for them, they take it with them.

Funk is part of who I am.

But why was he born to be a sort of lonely buffalo: outside the herd? Not artist: not soldier: not bureaucrat: not certainly indispensable anywhere: apparently not even sound in the eyes of these dim-minded specialists… An exact observer…

In my own country I am in a far off land.

I don't know who it is, she said; but somebody cares for me a little. I have a friend.

She had begun to wonder why she had never seemed to belong to anyone

stories belong to everybody.

It was a vague belief that she herself was not quite real—or that she did not belong to the life she had been born into.