Quotes About Belonging

A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.

If truth be told, certainly culturally, I never felt totally comfortable in the Labour party, because I've never really been a massively tribal politician.

Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.

I come from a time when every kid dressed up. Everybody. If you didn't, you wouldn't be able to hang out. It was very tribal. There's nice things in that. It's culture; it's roots for me.

I'm a huge NBA fan and watch many games each year. Following any sport is kind of bringing us back to our tribal roots.

All people - white, black, whatever - are tribal in the sense that we relate to that which is familiar to us.

I'm so bored of tribal politics. That's part of the problem. I'm so bored of it. I'm not a tribalist. That's not what turns me on.

Fandoms are less tribal than they used to be.

Back in the day, you belonged to a tribe, whether you liked rock, whether you liked pop, whether you liked hip-hop. But I think music has become more genre-fluid.

The idea is, we're still a society where we recognize and see and even sometimes seek members of our own tribe, whatever that tribe is. It could be ethnic, religious, geographic, political.

It's important to find your tribe.

When someone is in our tribe, I think it's particularly easier for us to tell them apart, because we're used to their facial features.

I think so much of adolescence is about finding your tribe, and what kids today have that we did not have is access to the whole world.

We love what we love, and shared fandoms bring people of all ages and backgrounds into one great tribe.

I found my place when I moved to London, where I chose to live, making my own tribe who were all from different backgrounds and places. The class thing is very dominant there, but in the cultural cross-fertilization, I felt a sense of belonging.

We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.

I wanted to know who my people were. And I - I think like a lot of Americans - thought that I could find those people in the past. I could find this mythic tribe of elders who would ground me in a story that was irrefutable, undeniable, that was unique and my own, and it would satisfy all my cravings.

People are longing for tribe and community.

Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain.

I really have created a family. I work with the people I love, I travel with them, I make films with them, and I'm in an office with them. So in a weird way - I know I haven't birthed a child - I feel that I'm a part of creating a family. It's a tribe. I love that word.

If you move between battalions, you are still within the same tribe.

We get so many people saying short fiction is not economical, that it doesn't sell; but there are so many of us enjoying writing it and reading it. So it's wonderful to be around people who love short fiction too - it's like hanging around with my tribe.

If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.

It wasn't until I found my tribe of artists - people who were outspoken and not afraid to say what they thought, whether in a song or a dance or a piece of classical music - that I found a refuge.