Quotes About Belonging

Any ideas of 'other' are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of 'normal.'

As for me I may not have relatives in the film industry. But I grew up in Mumbai as an avid moviegoer. So I don't feel like an outsider.

Coming home for me isn't, like, one family dinner. It's about am I gonna see 50 relatives, or am I gonna see 85?

Home, for me, is with the people who I really love - whether that's in England with my family, Ireland with my relatives, or Germany and Canada with my friends.

Cultural relativism has made it so people don't know who they are anymore.

I'm North Indian and Punjabi-ness is in my blood. Working in a Hindi film just makes me feel more confident.

I didn't feel like I fitted in. I felt like I was a hindrance to A-ha.

I belong to a Punjabi Hindu family.

Like most people in radio - and in magic - I'm not cool. I know people who are hip, and I can feel distance between them and me.

A lot of the things I do deal with my race, but my race is who I am. I'm an American kid who grew up listening to predominantly hip-hop. I will talk about hip-hop as the music I grew up listening to, and I think sometimes people like to put it as, 'Oh, well, he's talking about black things.' And, yeah, they are, but that's my American identity.

At a certain point, I got into the older, cooler crowd, and they listened to hip-hop. I was desperately trying to fit in.

My style is black. It's hip-hop. It's who I am.

If you like rock and roll, if you like rhythm and blues, if you like jazz, if you like hip-hop, you might be black-ish.

Hip-hop isn't dead by any means, but it's not something I define my black identity with.

My parents are hippies, so I must have a bit of hippie in me.

When I was 13 and looking for my identity, I was obsessed with hippies.

I didn't fit in on any level when I moved from Brooklyn to Burbank - on any level. And then I met a bunch of hippies, and I became a little hippie myself. A Brooklyn hippie.

More often than not, we think of ourselves as black, white, Asian, or Hispanic pretty much in this country, but the real America is much more than that.

Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.

I'm proud of being Hispanic.

I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.

I feel like decades ago it was either you're black, white, Asian or Hispanic, or whatever, but today we see more of an acceptance for people with multi-nationalities.

As a Hispanic American, this country has done a lot for me, and I think that people have to be more grateful for what they have in this country.

I'm full Hispanic.