Quotes About Belonging

I love comedians. They're my community.

There are better mothers than disaster. A native land is the best of all mothers. We American Jews have a native land we love. But it is even better to have a native land who loves us.

Wherever you go and whomever you meet, you will find your own love waiting for you.

It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped around.

Home. Wow. I'm already calling it home. Well, isn't that what any place is? Any place that you share with someone you love, I mean?

I am part of the demographic and I love it.

I love Canada, always.

I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.

I just love to go home, no matter where I am, the most luxurious hotel suite in the world, I love to go home.

Let your love propel your beloveds into the world-and into the full experience of who they are. In this will you have truly loved.

A story about family, first loves, second chances, and the moments in life that leads you back home

Suddenly Shirley understood why her father had brought her 10,000 miles to live among strangers. Here, she did not have to wait for gray hairs to be considered wise. Here, she could speak up, question even the conduct of the President. Here, Shirley Temple Wong was somebody. She felt as if she had the power of ten tigers, as if she had grown as tall as the Statue of Liberty.

Very timely too: Suddenly Shirley understood why her father had brought her 10,000 miles to live among strangers. Here, she did not have to wait for gray hairs to be considered wise. Here, she could speak up, question even the conduct of the President. Here, Shirley Temple Wong was somebody. She felt as if she had the power of ten tigers, as if she had grown as tall as the Statue of Liberty.

And to think that he was going to live right here in the neighborhood!

Just as girls who have become interested in boys become disdainful of their friends still interested in dolls, the Black teens who are at the table can be quite judgmental toward those who are not. "If I think it is a sign of authentic Blackness to sit at this table, then you should too.

Yes, we have an innate tendency to think in us and them categories, but we look to the leader to help us know who the us is and who the them is. The leader can define who is in and who is out... When the leader draws the circle in an exclusionary way, with the rhetoric of hostility, the sense of threat among the followers is heightened. When the rhetoric is expansive and inclusionary, the threat is reduced.

We must all be able to embrace who we are in terms of our racial and cultural heritage, not in terms of assumed superiority or inferiority but as an integral part of our daily experience in which we can take pride.

Having a place to be rejuvenated and to feel anchored in one's cultural community increases the possibility that one will have the energy to achieve academically as well as participate in the cross-group dialogue and interaction many colleges want to encourage.

The leader has to ask the question, how is the circle being drawn? Who is inside it? Who is outside it? What can I do to name the circle bigger?

I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.

The older you get the more it seems the world belongs to other people.

In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.

Can we "belong anywhere?" Should we try?

What a joy it is to arrive after dark at a snug-looking house, its windows filled with welcoming light, and know that it is yours and that inside is your family.