Quotes About Belonging

For us to keep claiming this isn't Hip Hop and that isn't Hip Hop doesn't make sense to me.

From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.

For me growing up when hip hop was forming and maturing and coming into its own, I just felt I was a part of something really exciting. I was a part of it as a consumer.

What I really hoped to do with my work was to at least be able to define my relationship to race.

I hoped people would take me as I am. It doesn't matter where I come from.

People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I'm playing a longer game than that.

I was born in America. I was raised in America. And America truly has done me a lot of dirt, a lot of horrible things that I never will forget, but I know this is where I was born at.

I started out with almost entirely black fans except for a little handful of people in the horror writers' community, and those people really liked horror, you know. They will go to any lengths and read whomever they can find because they like that feeling of being scared.

I just wanted to be a part of something that's a horror movie that scares you.

A horseman's head is in Athens, and his body is in London: Poseidon's torso is separated between Greece and the U.K. This means that they cannot be celebrated and appreciated as a whole in the country they came from.

We do believe in an inside-out culture. If we hold our hosts and guests to an expectation of acceptance and belonging, it has to start within our company. Otherwise, how on earth do we have the credibility to hold them accountable if we're not doing it to ourselves?

No matter how nice a hotel is, it's not home.

You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there.

I used to buy things for every hotel room or every place I lived in to make it feel like home.

Hotels make me sad. I need a home.

Hotels are nice and everything, but there's no place like home.

I lived in several hotels, yeah. You have to try to make it home.

I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.

I'm more at home with my log cabins than I am in my house in Cherry Hill.

My experiences growing up in both a Chinese American household and the Catholic Church define much of who I am.

Growing up in an Ethiopian household allowed me to feel like I had an audience before I had an audience.

I was raised in a black household and grew up with black homies.

Being someone that grew up in a biracial household I never really felt accepted by black people when I was a little kid, I didn't feel fully accepted by black kids and I definitely didn't feel fully accepted by white kids cause I just felt like I could never be neither one.

I grew up in a culturally different household.