Quotes About Belonging

I'm home'', he said against her skin, and she realized it was the truth. ''I'm home, too''.

when he called her Anne, it was the first time she felt as if the name was truly hers.

Queria que ela adorasse aquilo, que o amasse e que soubesse, quando se deitassem nos braços um do outro, suados e exaustos, que pertencia a ele. Porque ele já sabia que pertencia a ela.

This sense of comfort, of easy companionship, of sitting next to someone in a carriage and knowing with every fiber of your being that it was where you belonged.

There is nothing like one's family to make one feel like one has never grown up.

I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.

I can always tell when Indian people are born in America. They have the most American accent.

I will always call Darmstadt, Indiana, home.

I really treated Indiana like my home. I spent a great two years over there. I played my best basketball there.

We are Indians, firstly and lastly.

I am proud of the fact that, despite all the disparities that do come up often in our country, we are still Indians, and I am proud of that.

People should not feel that they are not Indians because they don't understand Hindi.

Obviously, my Indigenous culture is very special to me.

In many respects, I think 'Bless Me, Ultima' is a novel about the indigenous.

I'm connected with my indigenous roots.

Most of my books have been about the complex ways an individual depends on community.

I was born in Indonesia and will die in Indonesia.

As far as the industries go, in the North, they think I'm a South Indian actress; down South, I've always been thought of as a Bombay girl. I guess it's sort of an identity crisis, even though I'd like to belong to all the industries.

At school, I felt out of place. I was bullied. I would think, 'These kids don't like me, they don't accept me,' but I felt like in the entertainment industry, I would fit in.

My whole life is an interracial relationship! It's inescapable. I am who I am.

I think it is inevitable that we make Us/Them distinctions but there's nothing inevitable about who counts as a Them.

It is true for my family and many others: Adoption has made us infinitely richer in the ways that matter most.

Could it be that my circle is largely black and that it is why I am influential in black circles but not in white circles?

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.