Quotes About Belonging

In my early years, I couldn't find a community. I couldn't find anybody like me. I felt so isolated. There was nothing but shame and loneliness.

Music creates complicity, and then you feel less isolated.

I'm from an upper-middle class background. But because there was no one of my race where I grew up, I was very isolated. I felt different from everybody else.

We don't live in isolation. Most people don't like working in isolation - some do, but they typically don't end up playing Major League Baseball.

My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people.

No, I do not have dual citizenship with Israel. I'm an American.

If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

When my grandchildren are older and my great-grandchildren start growing up, first of all, I want them to be in Israel. I don't want them to leave the country because they have no choice.

My closest friends from Israel make fun of me for becoming an American, and my American friends make fun of how Israeli I am... I can't win.

My identity is always at the forefront, and I also think that every article that is written about me refers to me as an Israeli architect.

Am I an Israeli? That's a good question.

Gilmore Girls' felt very apart from everything else that was happening. I felt very lucky to be able to be on a show dealing with those issues. I was proud.

My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.

I was racially discriminated against for years as a child in Leeds because I was an Italian.

My name is an Italian name because my father is an Italian and my mother is Indian.

The Italians always know that I'm not Italian.

I miss Italy; that's beyond doubt.

I have dual citizenship with Italy.

I think I feel automatically at home in Italy.

In Italy, where I live now, I have put some distance between myself and the world that has formed me.

I had never been taken in like I was in Italy just by saying a few words. That made me feel like I had to put in the effort, and I want to be one of them.

I love Italy; in Italy, I grew up like a man and like a player. I felt Italy like a family.

I love Italy. I always said that some part of me is Italian since I moved to Milano.

Jack doesn't belong anymore to just a family. He belongs to the country.