Quotes About Belonging

I live in New York and I love hanging out in gay clubs, and a lot of my friends are gay. But, for better or for worse, I'm not gay.

There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.

I just feel like a Filipina, a Filipino woman, and it just so happens that when I was growing up, I was very much an Australian, and I think you can be both.

You're going to be way happier doing what you actually love and finding other people that love the same thing than doing something that other people love so you're just cooler and you have cool friends.

When I'm home I'm just happier, more at peace and more settled. It's fine being away, but it's not really living.

Home was extremely normal. But my dad's life was quite exotic, really. When I went away to stay with him, it was a different world. I never wanted to be in that world. I was much happier with my mates at home.

I'm happiest when I'm with people who have known me for years.

I'm happiest at home.

I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain.

I've had lots of opportunities to do things I'm passionate about and the things I care about and I feel that I can live in a world that doesn't really accept people that are different happily.

I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.

I have dual citizenship; I would be happy to go to England. I would be very happy to go to America.

I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community.

I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.

I understand how hard rock fans feel inside out, because I was one of those people.

I had a hard time growing up, and boxing kind of served as my second family.

I think it's crucial to go out and explain to people who you are and where you come from, your hardships - that's the kind of stuff I connect to.

I don't know who I would be if I weren't this child from Harlem, this woman from Harlem. It's in me so deep.

London is such a great place, and at White Hart Lane, I feel just like home.

White Hart Lane was always a place where I felt I belonged.

Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.

I hated high school. I didn't have any friends because I didn't fit in.

I went to an all-boys school and hated feeling like one of the crowd.

Part of the reason why people get radicalized is because they feel they are disenfranchised; that they not there; that they are bullied. But if they are represented, they can't go and say to themselves: 'Oh, this society hates us!'