Quotes About Belonging

People of Maharashtra are close to my heart, and this is where I became who I am, and this has been instrumental in my formative years.

You can be of any ethnic background or faith and be a Canadian if you share fundamental Canadian values, learn about our history and culture, and integrate in our society.

I grew up in L.A. in a school that was diverse, but it was not really integrated, so I didn't ever fully fit in with the black girls or the white girls or the Latina girls.

For individuals to become fully active in the Church, they generally must experience a spiritual conversion and a social integration.

When you walk among your own people and you know that they have a question about your integrity and everyone's giving you the side-eye, the people that used to give you the love, that's a very interesting feeling.

I am an African. I live there and my children live there, and as far as I understand, they intend to go on living there.

My only intention is to be happy and be in a place where I feel wanted.

You do need people. You can't live without them. We're all interconnected in some way.

That's interesting: people deriving their identities from their music.

I have always connected to stories with characters that don't fit in and have a constant internal battle between their better nature and the darkness within.

I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.

Each time I go away internationally or even to the mainland, I always love coming back to Tasmania.

He owed her everything—she was the other half of his soul. And he couldn't wait to see her, couldn't wait to hold her close and claim her. How

For other men --- men who are part of something, who follow a chief they believe in, or ways they were reared in from birth --- they can keep their eyes from seeing what they have not been taught to see, and do not want to see. But too late was I brought to my father's house. I tried to be part of it, but I never could.

there was no point in owning anything in L.A. . . . in this she had a curious premonition or grasp of 'place.

well come with me." "I wouldn't leave L.A. if the whole place tipped over into the ocean," Mary declared. And indeed, she only left Los Angeles on urgent business. She was too tough and too fragile for anyplace else.

What is a man cast out of the kingdom of men?

what thou lovest well is thy true heritage what thou lovest well shall not be reft from thee

I AM homesick after mine own kind, Oh I know that there are folk about me, friendly faces, But I am homesick after mine own kind.

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

There is nothing like the land you belong to claiming you back. But everywhere the earth is the same. -Old David

I knew long ago that their blood is the same as mine. No stranger can come battering down my door and say he brings me light. This I have within me.

make of a house like this. Would Barbara