Quotes About Belonging

Home is where I shed my skin.

Americanism is not a matter of skin or color.

I am the daughter of a Chicana and anglo. I think most days I am an embarrassment to both groups. I sometimes hate the white in me so viciously that I long to forget the commitment my skin has imposed upon my life.

I looked different, I had different skin, my hair was different, so I would get called names in school. It would always be reflective of what my hair and skin looked like.

We hear a lot in this country about family, and 'American Family' just shows us a portrait we haven't seen as much of yet. 'American Family' lets us know that being American isn't about the color of your hair or eyes or skin: it's really a state of mind.

My father has fair skin, and my mother is dark, and I'm kind of cafe au lait.

There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots.

I grew up as a Polynesian kid in the Polynesian community, and I was this skinny white kid.

My hair was always frizzy. I always wanted to be blonde with lovely straight hair. I was very skinny. I was quite tomboyish, just very quiet. I always wanted to fit in; I just couldn't.

I was one of those kids who kept trying on different skins in high school. I was very afraid to be myself around all of these kids, to really reveal any part of myself that was true, so I would try on different skins, try on different masks, hoping I'd hit on one that was cool or quirky or interesting enough that suddenly I would be OK.

I LOVE Australia! Its like my second home.

To love and be loved is the most natural expression of our being.

To love country means to rise above I am because I am. It is to recognize that I am because we are.

I miss everything that makes up Panama. I don't have a preference. I love my country.

I love inside jokes. I hope to be a part of one some day.

If you love this land of the free, bring them home, bring them home, Bring them back from overseas.

The chance to love and be loved exists no matter who or where you are.

Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.

Fear separates--makes us feel alone--disconnected--while love--love does just the opposite--it unites. {shadowland}

All of us need to be constantly reminded it takes a heap of living and loving to make a house a home.

And I was even beginning to think home might be with you.

Home. That wonderful place I was lucky enough to revisit no matter how short a time finally realizing it's not relegated to just one single place its wherever you make it.

Everyone feels like family and I am back in the city that I love.

I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain.