Quotes About Belonging

I am very proud of being Jewish.

I am Jewish, Italian, American, Catholic.

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.

Though I am not religious in the least, I am very proud to be Jewish.

A lot of Jewish kids do identify with us.

My music is really about people connecting with their identities, even if they aren't Jewish.

I don't think Hank Greenberg thought of himself as the first Jewish baseball player - he was a baseball player who happened to be Jewish. I'm an artist who happens to be Latin.

I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.

You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.

I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.

I really don't even think of myself as being Jewish except when I'm in Germany.

I never felt like a good Jew. My mother was not Jewish, and that makes me a non-Jew according to Jewish religious law.

I didn't know I was Jewish until I encountered anti-Semitism at the age of 10, when my best friend told me I couldn't come to their house because I was a Jew.

I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.

My father's Jewish, so my world is Jewish whenever I go home.

I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.

I grew up in Wakefield, Mass., and there were only a couple of Jewish families in the town.

I've always enjoyed the communal side of Jewish life.

I was too Jewish for 'Flashdance.'

No one in my family is Jewish; no one was raised as a Jew, me included.

As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew.

At school, I never had a hold on English history, and cheder was a place run by sadistic incompetents, so I felt alienated from the Jewish part of my past.

I'll tell you now that I hate myself for many reasons, but being Jewish is not one of them.

I was one of two Jewish kids in my school. We were probably one of two Jewish families in our town.