Quotes About Belonging

I always end up making friends at Pride and like, I see them throughout the year, but then you always have that nice, fond memory of, 'Oh my goodness I saw that person at this march, or this event.'

I'm proud to be an Albert Gore Democrat.

It's a blessing to know that the church and the gospel are the same no matter where I go. I can find a church and know the services and feel at home there.

With all my fans I got a family again.

It wasn't so much of a controlled effort to end up as part of the Goth scene.

We gotta be proud to be Latino. It's almost like we cheating because we're American and we live by American customs, but at the same time, we got that Latino culture. We cheating; we double dipping.

In fourth grade I had a high school reading level, but I didn't want to go to school and I didn't feel I belonged there.

I moved in fourth grade in the middle of the school year, and I was the new kid in school.

When I was in the second grade, I learned that I looked different from my classmates.

They've lived here now for more than half of their lives, and they raised a family here and now have grandchildren here... It has become their home, but at the same time, for my parents, I don't think either of them will ever consciously think, 'I am an American.'

I go back to Africa every year. I have a home there. You know, my grandfather lives back there in Cameroon.

My grandmother spent a lot of time with us when we were growing up. She did the school runs and fed us when my mum was busy. To be with her was to really be at home.

My mom is from Canada. Both my grandparents were from Canada.

My great grandparents are Scottish, and I have this very tenuous connection which I try and bump up whenever I can, because I'd much rather be Scottish than English.

Especially in America, when you move away from home, sometimes you get disconnected with your grandparents, your friends you grew up with.

I'm grateful for anything that brings me back to Colorado.

I speak about family and adoption because it 100% changed my life and who I am. It definitely played a very large role into just learning how to be grateful for what you have and being fulfilled in a way that a lot of adopted kids don't feel.

When you're biracial, people sort of make you gray - you're not black, you're not white, you're sort of gray; you're 'other.' And I'm fortunate to have parents that were strong enough to say, 'You're not 'other.' You're special.'

I am a great believer in found families and I'm not a great believer in blood.

I don't know what it is to feel very British, but I feel that it's home, so I'm very happy to represent Great Britain.

It matters a great deal that I come from a Jewish background.

With 'Greenberg,' I wanted to make a movie about Los Angeles... my great love for it and also the way that I felt not at home and alienated there.

L.A. has been a great place to dip into, but I'll always come back to London.

I don't want to cancel the South out in my life. I carry my Southernness with me. God knows, it's a great place to come from. It's also a place I had to get away from. It is just an endless world for me, so much culture and eccentricity.