Quotes About Belonging

Everywhere else, we are someone else, but at home, we remove our masks.

When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.

Yeah I definitely rep the city of Flint.

Anybody tells me I get a chance to rep Houston, I'm gonna rep it proud. It's all I've been wanting to do forever.

So I feel like while I'm in Miami, which is I hope for a while, a long time, forever, I'll be able to rep Miami and everything that's going on here.

When I joined Labour in 1982, I didn't feel I belonged to a party born to power. My repeated experience was of bitter and repeated defeats.

I know I will never be able to replace my parents, but over the years I have realized that you aren't able to choose your own family.

One of the things that we've got to understand... is that politics of identity has never gone away. And where people have had a strong identity, geographically, culturally, in terms of their employment... if that's gone and not being replaced by something else, then I think the right-of-centre's got to wake up to that.

I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.

I've always seen My Chemical Romance as the band that would have represented who me and my friends were in high school, and the band that we didn't have to represent us - the kids that wore black - back then.

I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

I feel that its important for me to be out there and to represent the face. At the same time, for me as an individual, I think the Asian-American face can be crowded with the American identity.

I'm proud to represent my country.

I want to represent Canada so I can represent my mother.

It means a lot to represent your country.

It means the world to me to represent the Hispanic community.

I feel like I can represent both countries, in a way, because I have a Korea face, but I was born and raised in the States.

I always say I represent my family when I'm in my country, but I represent my big family, which is Georgia, when I'm outside of my country.

How do you describe the pride you have for the club you represent, for the people you represent?

To represent your country is always very nice.

I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.

If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.

'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.

I didn't want to represent any negative side of the country where I was born and raised.