Quotes About Belonging

You may not know it, but I was adopted as a baby by my wonderful parents, Allan and Margaret Atkins of Cumberland Gap, Tenn.

The Garden State will never leave me.

I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.

I ain't never detached myself from Gary.

I have hardly any friends who aren't gay.

I think also there was a lot of coming to terms with where I am in life, where I fit in as a gay man in America, and getting more comfortable with who I am.

Without gay men, I am nothing.

When I was 14, I felt very rundown; I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that.

I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.

I've always felt very attuned to, and at home in, the gay community.

For a long time, gay men fought to be seen as different, doing our own thing: This is our lives; this is what we do. Accept it. There's a conservatism that has come into the gay community: 'We're just like you, just like everyone else.'

I fly my geek flag proudly. Absolutely.

I'm quite comfortable with being a geek. I've been a geek since high school.

I am a geek, and proud of it.

I was president of the show choir, I was kind of a geek, whatever.

I loved 'Freaks and Geeks.' I don't know a better show.

In high school, I was sort of friends with the geeks and friends with the socials and everything else and not solidly in one camp. I've always lived on the borders.

The black geeks of the world, we feel like we don't have a home.

I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.

The thing I've always admired about Eagles fans is that it's not fans; it's family. It's generational.

I'm just so proud to be from San Francisco and to have a family history there. It's only two generations back, but still, it's two generations in San Francisco. I love it. I'm so proud of it.

Most people aren't Republicans four generations down from a president.

You get people who come to London, sever links with where they come from, and then when they need people, there's nobody there. To feel like you can't go back home would be a horribly sad place to be, as is mistaking fame for genuine love and affection.

If you ask me what am I, I might say 'I am a Californian,' and if George Bush were here, he would say 'I am a Texan.'