Quotes About Belonging

Since I came here I've been treated awesome, in all aspects. I really enjoy playing here.

I don't like being treated differently.

It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home.

Northern Ireland has treated me well, you know?

There's something about being in Manchester: everyone is so chilled out, people here accept me for me, no one here judges me, and everyone is treated the same. I love that.

I have sort of made it my mission to be treated less as a foreigner, less as a guest.

Stop treating Muslims as if they're some kind of foreign, alien entity rather than part of the fabric of Canadian society or American society or British society.

My feeling is that my body and all my things inside me - when I move, when I do everything - are Brazilian because my family is Brazilian, and my mother language is Brazilian Portuguese. But all the thinking in my life, all the treatment with people, I think I'm more from Spain. That's how I grew up.

No matter how big you are, when you go back home, your family treats you like a normal person.

The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment.

Being an American is a state of mind, and to be in a family is to feel the power of belonging, the power of your roots. Family is a tree, the strength of a tree, the roots, the leaves, the past and the present, the future, the fruits, the seeds.

One of the things novels should do is shine a light on those parts of us that are common, the fibres that connect all of us. They should convey the sense that we're all connected, coming from the same tree, sharing common roots.

If I knew I could never come back to Ireland, to England, I think I'd fall off the tree.

When I looked at the family tree and at where my ancestors lived, it was places like Rothbury and Tropton! I was going, 'No, that can't be the reason why I feel so at home there.' But could it be in my DNA? It's kind of shocking.

I knew I was as gay as a goose. Then I ended up in West Hollywood, where the queers hang from the trees. I was home. I had landed.

Being half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees but had Jewish ornaments.

Hanging out with the Trees is like hanging out with your family, and I hardly ever see my family.

'Star Trek' fans totally accepted my sexual orientation. There are a great number of LGBT people across 'Star Trek' fandom. The show always appealed to people that were different - the geeks and the nerds, and the people who felt they were not quite a part of society, sometimes because they may have been gay or lesbian.

All my friends were 'Star Wars' kids but I didn't go to the movies, so I was the 'Star Trek' kid.

In my research, I've interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call 'different': scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.

I was the funny-looking one who wore a trench coat and played hacky sack with the other greasy kids.

I have a deep tribal sense. I grew up in a synagogue that my ancestors built. I sat in the third row. My family was decent. They were good people; they were handshake people. So I never had a sense of rebellion.

This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.