Quotes About Belonging

What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one's own culture.

Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything.

I feel like J. K. Rowling's world is one that is owned by everyone in some ways. People have grown up with it and have such a sense of that universe that there's something kind of wonderful seeing everyone get involved.

When I was in elementary school, I watched 'Cinema Paradiso' 22 times and memorized the dialogue. In the movie, everyone had a place, even the bum who thought he owned the piazza. Eccentricities were celebrated, and no one was isolated.

Good Charlotte became more than a band and more than the songs: it became something that the fans owned.

My mom's never owned anything. I always wanted her to own something that she could say, 'This is mine' and feel good about it.

For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn't grow up being told that I was a disabled child.

I think that's the reason why I'm proud to play for Belgium - because I can take ownership. I'm not saying that I'm not proud of being Congolese as well - but I'm saying this is also my country, and anything that happens in my country, I want to have a say.

A community belongs to those who take ownership of it.

It's important for me to go back into the ghetto, where I'm from. I still get my oxygen from there. I don't live in the ghetto anymore, but every time I go back, I'm still seeing the same things that I lived.

My own fear, if I have one myself, is a fear of being obsolete. This is a world that changes very fast, and one of the main human desires is to belong to, to be part of, something. It's probably one of our greatest needs next to oxygen.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

Growing up, I was the only Indian kid around for miles, so I ached to belong. I had a neighborhood pack of nine guys and two girls, and we hung out all the time. We played football, baseball, and broom-hockey on the iced-up lake.

We all struggle to find our place, and schools can be cruel to kids who aren't part of a pack.

In high school, I remember feeling like a Jughead - like I was a little bit weird and kind of emotional. I also remember feeling like an Archie - sort of the leader of the pack.

Like most people, I have painful memories of trying to fit in as a child. I wore, said, and did pretty much what everyone else did.

I think that the shame of being different is very painful for a lot of people.

The fact of leaving one's country, one's family, one's roots, can be painful. My father had already found his place, but for us, for my mother, it was very difficult to get our bearings.

One of the reasons I paint black people is because I am a black person.

When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.

When you're buying a pair of TOMS, if you don't feel like you're part of a community, then I've failed.

I used to feel very lonely on the team. The boys would all pair up.