Quotes About Belonging

Here in my country I'll live and roam My spirit sings here - This is my home.

Up there," she says, "I'm just another little old lady. But down here, at the pool, I'm myself.

I loved this-living as part of a community...Short of living on a commune, how could I import the feeling of belonging somewhere back into my own life? Quite simply, I could move back to California, where my family and oldest friends were. If I loved the city life but didn't fancy living across the country from everyone I loved, why not San Francisco? I wanted a life, and I no longer really equated life with work.

I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.

however hard you try to dissolve patriotism with the other ingredients of an emotional stew, it always floats to the top, just like grease finding its way to the surface of a meat broth.

Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.

Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself.

There's not a place like home

Probablemente de todos nuestros sentimientos el único que no es verdaderamente nuestro es la esperanza. La esperanza le pertenece a la vida, es la vida misma defendiéndose.

El choque entre mi memoria y lo que veía alrededor de mí me hacía sentirme fuera de un mundo que me era familiar, pero al que ya no pertenecía.

How could I be sure of these teeangers' national origin? Was I using names of origin to give them a place instead, when it was clear that they were moving toward a new language?

In the idea we recognize our true homeland.

I am an individual and I respect my own individuality. But I am an individual and a member of a community. And a community has conditions. All the commandments - Thou Shalt Not - are about community

The other kids ignored me, and that hurt more than I cared to admit. Before long, I'd decided they had nothing on me. I could play their game. I could be happy being invisible.

Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.

Know that in this world there's somebody who will always love you.

Run a hand through your hair, like the white boys do, even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.

My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I'm from the Dominican Republic. They're the reason I exist at all. To these roots I owe everything.

if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves.

In your heart you thought she would hate you—that they would all hate you. I don't hate you. Tú eres mi hombre, she says proudly.

Everybody else going through the terror and joy of their first crushes, their first dates, their first kisses while Oscar sat in the back of the class, behind his DM's screen, and watched his adolescence stream by. Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.

The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. My subject: how to explain to you that I don't belong to English though I belong nowhere else Gustavo Pérez Firmat

If this is the United States, mail me home.

But beautiful girl above all beautiful girls,' he wrote back, 'This is my home.