Quotes About Belonging

People give because they identify with Burning Man, with our city, with our civic life. The idea of giving something to the citizens of Black Rock City has enormous appeal to them because it enhances their sense of who they are and magnifies their sense of being. That's a spiritual reward.

I played baseball in college but I didn't identify with the jocks, I was in my own little world .

I just grew up in the States, so I feel like I identify more with the American culture.

I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.

You can be an American or an Englishman or Canadian and be a Parisian. It's a very admirable culture, and people want to identify with it.

I guess I'm the guy from the Beastie Boys. I'm one of the guys from the Beastie Boys. I guess that's what I'll always identify myself as.

I love L.A. and feel attached to this city, but I don't identify myself as being a part of it.

I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood.

I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people.

I will forever and always identify with Scarborough - no matter where I move.

I'll always identify as a Chicagoan; if it wasn't so cold, I'd be there forever.

I think everybody can identify, you know, with this sort of struggle to decide for yourself who you are, you know, and what your place in life is.

I'm proud to be Canadian. But I identify as being a British mum.

I couldn't identify with anyone. At school, I was considered very strange. I didn't understand the relationships between people.

I'm a first-generation kid in this country. I so identify with America and its culture. I'm a citizen, I was born here. I'm American. At the same time, like most first-generation kids, I have this other identity to another country back home, which is India.

I'm black and white, so either, sometimes, you're not considered by the breakdown of the script: you're not 'black enough' for this role. Or you're not 'white enough' for this role. Or, like, looking up to people, who do I identify with? And not seeing Barbies that maybe look like me.

While I resonate deeply with my maternal cultural heritage, I identify as American.

I identify as black.

A lot of kids can't identify with the things I've done and where I'm from and who I am as an individual. That's why I've tried to be a person and live my life in a way that can be identified by all cultures.

I don't really identify myself as white or African-American. I'm just me. I'm Madison.

I certainly think that my music is a response to my experience as a person who doesn't identify as straight, as a person who grew up American.

To know that the people who are singing along at your show actually have something in common with you and can identify with what you've gone through, makes the songs that much more meaningful to sing.

I would say a lot of us here think being called a geek is cool. A lot of us at Blizzard identify with it.

I am a South Tyrolean. I identify with this land.