Quotes About Belonging

When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.

Through every moment on stage for the first time, I felt like I was finally right where I belonged.

The house negroes of the County considered themselves superior to white trash, and their unconcealed scorn stung him, while their more secure position in life stirred his envy. By contrast with his own miserable existence, they were well-fed, well-clothed and looked after in sickness and old age. They were proud of the good names of their owners and, for the most part, proud to belong to people who were quality, while he was despised by all.

She thought without surprise, looking down from her height, that her shoulders were strong enough to bear anything now, having borne the worst that could ever happen to her. She could not desert Tara; she belonged to the red acres far more than they could ever belong to her. Her roots went deep into the blood-colored soil and sucked up life, as did the cotton.

It was an old kender proverb—Don't change color to match the walls. Look like you belong and the walls will change color to match you.

Don't change color to match the walls. Look like you belong and the walls will change color to match you.

Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that I'd much rather be disliked for being me than to be disliked just because I'm a kender. I can do something about me, you see, but I can't do much about being a kender because my mother was a kender and so was my father and that seems to have a lot to do with me being a kender.

A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison," written when she was eighty, she says she passed through a painful period of longing for her own people before she began to identify as a Seneca, but within four years—the same period during which Olive was with the Mohaves—"I had become so accustomed to their mode of living, habits, and dispositions, that my anxiety to get away …had almost subsided. 9 She

Olive's tattoo marked the first stage of her transformation into a Mohave. She was now visually integrated into the tribe and physically traceable as a Mohave because of it.

I want to belong to myself, to own something, not necessarily something very wonderful, but something which is mine, a place of my own, maybe only one room, but mine. Why sometimes I even find myself dreaming of a gas stove.

Je suis quelqu'un qui ne sera jamais revenu dans son pays natal

Il vero luogo natio è quello dove per la prima volta si è posato uno sguardo consapevole su se stessi: la mia prima patria sono stati i libri.

If it don't come back, it was never yours. If it comes back, it's yours to keep.

but I couldn't get through the day wearing clothes belonging to elderly people. I am not Alexa Chung

May my heart be your shelter, and my arms be your home.

You are loved, and your purpose is to love.

Every cell of my being is radiant with my love for You. May my earthly self align with this, May my human heart stop beating so wildly. May I remember, dear God, that I live in Your mind and I belong in Your arms.

America's higher purpose is not just to allow you to have what you want, or to allow me to have what I want. Our higher purpose is to give everyone a fair shot at making their dreams come true. Anything that stands in the way of that will ultimately deprive all of us of the opportunities we hold most dear. For America doesn't belong to any one of us; America belongs to all of us.

Do you sometimes want to wake up to the singularity we once were? So compact no body needed a bed, or food or money ~ no body hiding in he school bathroom or home alone pulling open the drawer where the pills are left For every atom belong to me as good belong to you. Remember?

That was just the means by which he would be totally and constantly surrounded by Black people; and it was the means by which they would all know his name.

Everybody's someone else's nigger I know you are so am I I wasn't born with enough middle fingers I don't need to chose a side

What an embarrassment that was, being somewhere because there was nowhere else for you to be.

Home. What kinder place could there be on earth, and why did it seem to them all like exile? Oh

I didn't feel very much at home in the world, that was a fact. Now I do.