Quotes About Belonging

I believe it's an honor for me wherever I go in and around the country people still identify me and love me so much.

Mixed-bloods loosen the seams in the shrouds of identities.

I've always been really interested in how people's identities are shaped by where they come from and how they want to get away from where they come from.

I don't like identity. We accept identities in Israel. We make them holy. But what does identity really mean?

It's our roots that really give us our identity.

When your identity is found in Christ, your identity never changes. You are always a child of God.

A lot of my identity as an Aboriginal person is about family.

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.

We all need a firm sense of identity.

When I was growing up, rock & roll helped give me my sense of identity, but I had to search for it.

My hair has become part of my identity; it's almost an appendage to me.

The turban is an inextricable part of the Sikh identity. Sikhs say you may take off their head but not the turban.

I was adopted by a Salvadorian mother and a white father. Growing up having complete identity crisis. Then my search for my mother and trying to find out why I was given up, and how could a mother give up a child, then finding out the circumstances of my birth was pretty traumatizing.

There is only one Army in which you serve. When that identity is gone, it is gone forever.

In a way, our family is our modern identity.

I like the idea of a world, even within a big giant city, where you're not anonymous. You have an identity, and that's an identity that's known just sort of by shopkeepers. I felt that as a kid, and I loved it.

Every American has a unique identity. I am proud to be gay. I am proud to be a Republican. But most of all, I am proud to be an American.

In the larger world, tribalism is an enormous problem, as it ever has been: both strength and idiocy borne from belonging.

If I could go anywhere in the world, that place would be home.

I'm very connected to my neighbourhood. If I could, I'd take the entire Peri Garden neighbourhood to form a Jardim Peri in Manchester.

I know what it's like to be ignored; when I got to L.A., I longed for somebody who looked like me to show me the ropes.

I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.

There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.

My family was one of the few South Asian families in my community in Illinois. Growing up in the '80s, I remember going to the K-Mart with my mom, when she was wearing her sari, and she'd get made fun of. People would ask my mother, 'Were you born with that dot on your head?'