Quotes About Belonging

My parents were first-generation immigrants. My mum wore a sari but at school and as a teenager and in my 20s I wanted to fit in.

We are a nation of immigrants.

I'm the son of immigrants.

I am more than an immigration activist.

I'm black, and it's a very important part of what I am. I'm not embarrassed about it.

I keep my Scottish connection. I know where I was born, and that's an important part of my history, and I think all immigrants are the same. But if I could live anywhere in the world, it would be Australia.

I need to feel like I am important part of the team, if I get that the goals will come.

It is impossible to live without love. You must have the feeling of being loved.

The Conservatives must never give the impression we exclude any group of British citizens.

I've never thought of myself in terms of an identity. I'm always baffled when I encounter someone who gives the impression about being confident about a particular defined identity.

Be proud of your heritage, and don't be discouraged from the improbable.

Actually, until a few years ago, my English was very poor. I wasn't thinking of my American roots at all, until I went to play in an American youth team. From that moment, my English improved, and I started to feel more American.

There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything.

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.

'The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears' is very much about America - it just happens to have African and Ethiopian characters, and in fact, it happens to have more characters who are not Ethiopian than who are.

In the beginning, I tried to be a more cosmopolitan writer, but I realized that I was a country boy, and I had to deal with things I knew about and where I came from.

The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.

I love coming to Detroit. First getting to be buddies with Kid Rock in the beginning, and him being really great to us, showing us love, the love of the city. I feel like it's our city now, too.

I was never a joiner. I tried - I had people I admired and liked and wanted to hang with, but I ended up starting a theatre company and that took me back to Chicago... I guess I wasn't a scenester in the end. Something must have worked out right, as I'm still here - but I'm only a binge socialite.

There are always people you can turn to for help and advice. Former coaches, people I used to play with in Belgium and in England. It is good to have people you can look to for support, but in the end you are out on the pitch on your own and you have to come through it for yourself.

I'm Korean-American. Not Colombian. My parents are first-generation, and I'm like... in-between, because I moved over here when I was four or five.

We carry home with us, all the good and the bad and the in-between.

MP is like my second home. It's a culturally inclined state.

I'm not looking to exclude people, I'm looking to include them.