Quotes About Belonging

I am very proud of being Jewish. I went to a Jewish school all my life.

I have one identity, and that's Israeli and Jewish. I don't view myself as an American citizen.

When my mother left home, her family sat shivah for her, more because my father was not Jewish than because he was black.

I couldn't lie anymore to my kids telling them that they are equal citizens in the state of Israel. They cannot be equal because in order to fit in and to be accepted and to be a citizen in Israel, you need a Jewish mother.

I've always felt as much outside the Jewish experience as in it. It astonished my family that I wrote about things Jewish.

I understand if everyone looking at me is seeing a Jew and seeing me as a kind of 'other.' But I can't be expected to see myself that way. That is, to me, Jewish is the normal way to be; it's not a type of being.

There's two identity markers I'm sure of, and one is, I'm Jewish. And the other is, I'm a writer. There's just no arguing with either thing. I'm just Jewish.

I don't consider myself a Jewish writer.

I would be heartbroken if I ever thought that people in the Jewish community thought that Britain was no longer a safe place for them.

I don't feel that Jewish people have a class.

I come from French Cajun Jewish people.

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.

It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.

Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.

Jews can live their own life as Jews and yet be part of a different country.

In terms of defending Jews, I'm a Jew.

The whole point of Israel was to create a place where Jews could live the best life - and liveliest - in accordance with their values.

My goal is that Jews feel safe in their country.

I grew up as one of the few Jews in Edison, and I had people tell me they hated me because of my religion.

There is constant talk about the intermarriage crisis: who is a Jew and how we define a Jew. That doesn't go over well with young Jews trying to figure out whether they want to be a part of this thing or not.

Curtis Axel isn't Joe Hennig. That's who he should've been from day one, there are guys that have a legacy in this business. All that they would've had to do to help him from day one was let him be Joe Hennig.

I'd see movies, comedies, and I loved 'Animal House', I loved all the John Hughes stuff, but I never saw me and my friends totally represented.

I have never seen a hopeful person join a gang.

I never went to camp as a kid. I couldn't get into an Ivy League school. I wouldn't join a biker club.