Quotes About Belonging

I would say I have more in common with drag queens than I do with most people.

I think the earnestness of what we're saying and what other bands like us are totally saying - or other queer bands - is 'We exist.'

I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.

My queer black women peers are the ones who make me not feel crazy. The way we act is so instinctive.

I hope that I do make music that can speak to anyone. I don't just want to play for a queer crowd.

All my friends were doing just dumb stuff that kids do, like making out with people at parties and starting to date... I didn't know any gay people growing up or any queer people growing up, and so I just really felt alone and kind of lost, and I just wasn't experiencing life.

My brownness is something that I can't hide. There are some straight-acting or straight-passing queer people out there, but I'm not one of them. This is something I would rather not have to hide.

When I was growing up, there weren't that many queer girls of colour making music. So I just wanted to be able to exist, just to be that, without putting too much emphasis on it.

If you're adopted, you can't help but feel, somehow or other, deep, deep, deep down inside that you don't belong. It makes you feel like you've got a question mark inside you.

I've had moments when I questioned my place in the world. At times, especially in seventh grade, life was lonely and I'd often feel sad. I never wanted to deny who I was, but dealing with the sadness and the anger that came from people constantly making fun of me wore me down at times.

One thing that was very important to me was that I felt comfortable in the lab from being very, very small. I knew that that's where I belonged, and I could fix things and move things. And no matter how many classrooms I went into where I was the only girl in the physics class or whatever, I never questioned the fact that I didn't belong there.

In my early 20s, I set out to kind of find myself. At that time, if you were different or if you ever questioned your gender identity or sexual orientation, society kind of put you in the gay club.

Trump has created an atmosphere wherein my sons are questioning their place and identity as Arab Americans and Muslims.

As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.

There's a lot of things I would definitely go to bat for in Hawaii. I've been all over that stuff. If someone told me to be quiet about that because of my profession, no. That's my people.

I was very quiet at college and had a certain group of friends.

Looking back now, I can see that my dad was a real fighter. A lot of people thought, 'Why don't you keep the Jewish stuff quiet?' They were anti-Semitic Jews. People who were afraid. People who came here and made it and anglicized themselves and didn't want to associate with their past.

I credit where I'm from so much for my outlook on life, my personality, the rawness and the countryness about me. All these quirky things are because of where I'm from.

I don't know if I'll quit Ireland. I like living here because I like the people here, but you never know what's going to happen.

I certainly have no plans to quit the United States.

The actual thought of not really having a home was, for me, very depressing, and it was something that I was dealing with for quite some time.

I never really had any close friends in India, and I felt a terrible loneliness and isolation for many years. Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

To make an absolutely gross generalization, I think a lot of people feel like if you're mixed, more often than not you're quote unquote white. So if you're mixed, you embrace the mainstream culture more than the African-American culture.

I'm a proud member of the rabble.