Quotes About Belonging

Quieres saber de verdad cómo se siente un X-Man?d Entonces conviértete en un muchacho de color, inteligente y estudioso, en un ghetto contemporáneo de Estados Unidos. ¡Mamma mía! Es como si tuvieras alas de murciélago o un par de tentáculos creciéndote en el pecho.

For the first time I actually feel like I owned my skin, like it was me and I was it.

Without us, in other words, there can never be hope of a We.

What is clear is that being a reader/fanboy (for lack of a better term) helped him get through the rough days of his youth, but it also made him stick out in the mean streets of Paterson even more than he already did.

Decent people live around here and that's how we're going to live. You're Americans now. He had his Chivas Regal bottle on his knee.

You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest.

What is home but a place where you are truly known?

She thought she'd hate it, this huge, faceless city far from home, but the opposite was true: she felt nothing but relief. The heedless sprawl of Denver, its chaotic snarl of subdivisions and freeways; the openness of the high plains and the indifferent mountains; the way people talked to each other, easily, without pretense, and the fact that nearly everyone was from somewhere else: exiles, like her.

Sua vida lhe era tão estranha que não parecia mais ser sua, se é que algum dia tinha sido.

But I suppose it's part of being old to feel that way, half in one world and half in the other, all of it mixed together in my mind. No one's left who even knows my name. Folks call me Auntie, on account of I never could have children of my own, and I guess that suits me fine. Sometime it's like I've got so many people inside of me I'm never alone at all. And when I go, I'll be taking them with me.

They always come home.

Maybe home isn't a place. Maybe it's a feeling you have inside of you, being around the people who matter to you

Its as if God cruised through one of those Chinese fast-food buffets and bought Abe the full meal dealso he can pass for Mama's beloved son. When it came to my turn, all that was left was one of those soggy egg rollsthat doesn't qualify as real Chinese food.

Have you ever felt kind of..." She paused. "Detached from the world? As if you didn't fit in, and you weren't interested in what everyone else was interested in? As if you belonged in a whole different world?" "Everyone feels that way sometimes," I said. "But you eat chocolate until the endorphins kick in, and the crazy thoughts go away." I grinned at her.

Wolves are social. They need their pack.

There are no races: there is nothing in the world that can do all we ask race to do for us.

So what, you live with homeless people?" "We have a home. It's just not your normal kind of home with a kitchen and all that stuff but it's still a home.

Shit. I think I do." "That's why people have beat you up all your life. They think you're not black enough.

No, you can see it in his eyes. I know he looks white but if you look at him closely you can see some coloured blood. He hates it, that's why he's so fucked up. I mean, imagine being nearly white but not quite. Know what I mean?

Buildings aren't homes, Johnelle. People are…and memories, and Ian has plenty of those.

His answer, given to me with tears in his eyes: 'Damn it, I happen to love this country.

But I have never observed in any one of these other groups quite the spirit of belonging together, quite the urge to reminisce about the days of the laboratory, quite the feeling that this was really the great time of their lives. That this was true of Los Alamos was mainly due to Oppenheimer. He was a leader.

i had never felt more at home here, here where the stars shone so brightly and the breeze felt like a lover's touch.

Holidays are necessary celebrations of human collectiveness. It reminds us we're a part of society. - STRONG: Powerful Philosophy for Timeless Thoughts by Kailin Gow