Quotes About Belonging

It isn't a band. It's bigger than a band. It's a lifestyle.

You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.

I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to be accepted.

I know I don't own Big Bird, but I own his soul, I feel.

I feel I am strange to all but the birds of America.

Birmingham is my second home.

We're a tight-knit city in Birmingham. We have so much around us that brings the people together, no matter who you are or your background.

For my 11th birthday, I asked to be adopted.

When you move around a lot, there are little bits of you from everywhere. I mean, my father's French, and I speak French, and there's a kind of struggle in me that says, 'I'd like to be French.' But I've never been fully part of that culture, that role.

As much as I'm a black person from America, I'm a black person from Africa, too.

The idea that a person can be both black and white - and at the same time neither - is novel in America.

The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.

My life was very compartmentalized. I went to a school that was all white, and then I went home and to my black family.

I wanted to make a movie about a black family in Middle America. I wanted to make a film where everyone can look at them and say, 'This is my family.'

You can't just say in one sentence what is blackness or what is black culture or what makes you who you are.

If you cut me open I bleed East London.

I bleed black and gold. NXT is home.

I think a lot of me trying to blend in was me co-opting the racism that was used against me in a way - being OK with it.

I don't want to be white. I don't want to be straight. I don't want to blend in.

I wanted to blend in 'cause I knew I was different.

Everybody from our block got PnB in front of their name.

When I started my blog, I wanted it to be like my house - my own little place that anyone could come to.

The majority of my blood is Asian.

I'm very proud of my Scottish blood.