Quotes About Belonging

Each time I visit Japan, I am reminded of how Canadian I am and how little racial connection matters.

I grew up in London, and that's where I spend most of my time. Unless I have a really good reason not to be, I'll always be in London.

Once upon a time . . . What time are we upon and where do I belong?

I grew up weird - very sensitive and highly inhibited. I felt like I was born in the wrong time zone to the wrong people at the wrong place.

I never try to force poems into a collection simply because they were written/published within a certain period of time. They will eventually find their perfect home.

My heart is in South Africa, through my mum. My mum being from here, me spending a lot of time here as well, I feel most connected to this part of the world.

Certain people who care about me a lot have said 'You don't play the game, and if you don't play the game, you don't get picked for the team all the time.

I have a lot of connection to Pataudi. I have spent a lot of time there and I love the place very much, but at no point, do I consider myself a Nawab.

So much of your identity in junior high is built on who you're with. You see the world through the lens of how you identify and have been identified at that time.

I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere.

I strode among giants, friends tell me now, though at the time I felt more like a misfit associating with oddballs.

That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true.

The first time I really listened to an album and thought, This album is mine, was Kanyes Late Registration.

The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.

Despite the fact that I spend a lot of time in London, Switzerland and New York, Africa is the place I know and love best, and my heart will always lie here.

Every time I go to big events, it's a trip. I feel like that kid who shouldn't really be there.

I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.

I never paid much attention to being Jewish when I was a kid. In fact, I'd say my religion was more surfing than Judaism - that's what I spent most of my time doing.

The feeling of losing oneself in somebody's arms, yet at the same time finding oneself there, is irreplaceable. Nothing compares to the intensity of that feeling.

I just don't feel like part of the fraternity of actors. I do geek out. All the time.

I grew up watching foreign programs - American, English, Mexican, and very little Kenyan. 'The Color Purple' was the first time I saw people who looked like me.

I've waited a long time to be part of a franchise like this [the Yankees].

After all this time, I know exactly where I belong.

Any time you can be with like-minded people, laughing or crying over the same joke or the same scene... For me it's therapeutic. You just feel a little less alone on the planet.