Quotes About Belonging

I can't tell you how many resumes we get from business schools across the country from black women and black men and Hispanic women, men, etcetera, who say I'm interested in working for your company because they can see someone at the top who looks like them.

I'm very proud of the fact that I am of Hispanic descent.

I'm gonna rap the same whether I'm white, black, or Hispanic, I'm still gonna be me.

I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me.

The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs: you're their friend.

I didn't have a lot of homies in school when I was young because I was gay and weird and mean, so I went to theater class because I was like, 'Yo, I need a hobby.'

Where I grew up, hockey was the sport that 90 per cent of black kids at school played.

I've always got a home in England. My family and friends are there. It's a place I hold very close to me.

Airbnb is different from most brands. We're a community of individuals, and yet there's a consistency holding us together through the values we share. We have a common belief in belonging, but everyone's expression of it will naturally always be a little different.

There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart-strings.

A politics that defines itself by difference holds no appeal for me.

When I was young I was one of the second generation of black people in Holland. My father was the first. My mother was white, and living with a black man at that time and having a how-you-say half-caste boy is not easy.

I was born there and I grew up in East L.A., not Hollywood.

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

It's always good to be home.

Coming home is what helps keep us sane.

I love the Old Vic so deeply, it's like a second home.

L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.

With all the movies and stuff that we do, it always does feel like this is our home base when Nat and I are playing music. Because we do acting, and that's so fun, and we do it, and we're really passionate for it, but when I'm playing music with Nat - I don't know how to really explain it - it just feels right.

There's nothing like doing a show at home. When you do a show in Chicago, there's just a certain love that you don't feel anywhere else; it's like home base.

I love Brooklyn so much. Everything I do I try to do in Brooklyn. Brooklyn is my home base.

I want people to know me in my home state. I want their approval.

Yes, doing a Kannada film is like a homecoming. This industry is like family to me. I have known people here since my childhood.

I'm basically a homegrown American.