Quotes About Belonging

I was born in Nashville, but my whole family is from East Texas, so I consider myself a dual citizen.

I still feel like I'm the girl from Texas.

Saying you're from Texas makes you kind of proud.

I don't know if I was so much of an outsider until after I started doing films. That put me on the outside. I grew up in Texas, and I wasn't the child of industry parents, and I didn't have a lot of friends in the industry or anything like that.

I'm from East Texas, yes.

I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.

I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.

I felt like the luckiest kid in the world because God had put me on the ground in Texas. I actually felt sorry for those poor little kids that had to be born in Oklahoma or England or some place. I knew I was living in the best place in the world.

I went to high school in Frisco, Texas, where a lot of people look the same, dress the same, act the same. People are either like, 'You're not black enough for this' or 'You're not white enough for this.'

I travel all over the country, all over the world, and I'm happy to call Texas home.

When I lived in New York City, I loved it so much. But every six months, I had to go home to Texas to remember who I was. Get filled back up.

I don't often get Indian girl roles because I'm 'not Indian enough.' Which is true - I'm from Texas.

The bottom line is, Texas and its people are pretty much what most people mean when they use the broader term 'America.'

My father is from Jamaica, my mother is from the U.K., but I was adopted as an infant by a really wonderful family in Alberta, Canada. What we refer to as 'Texas of the North.'

Growing up as a gay boy in West Texas, I definitely felt like a bit of an outcast sometimes - that there was a world that I would never be a part of.

I'm from Houston, Texas.

I've lived in Texas now longer than anywhere and then California and then Oklahoma, but yet Oklahoma is what I consider home.

I grew up in America - I was born and raised in Texas. I might look different, but at the same time, I'm pretty American.

When things were really rolling at Texas Tech, I was a part of something bigger than myself, bigger than football.

I don't hate anything about Texas. I love my state. I love my area. It's like home.

I have a good fan base in Texas. It's almost like a second home.

All we did was take what we were and brought it forward. We obviously had a great amount of pride in being from Texas.

If everyone in your class has heroes, and they can relate to them in textbooks and literature, and then you don't see any of your heritage there, you feel less than. And I always wanted to be able to make Latin kids like myself feel more than.

I've always felt very much from a mixed culture - mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.