Quotes About Belonging

I was considered the black sheep of the family, neighbours didn't want their kids playing with me.

Oakland is home, and you always want to go home. Anytime you get the chance, you're happy to go home.

Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont.

My real name's McGill. The Jew thing I just do for the homeboys. They all want a pipe-hitting member of the tribe, so to speak.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

I don't belong here. It doesn't matter, because even if I don't belong in this place, she's here and I want to be where she is.

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

That's right, you're not from Texas. But Texas wants you anyways.

Over the next few days we want cities, towns and villages across the UK to send a message to Scotland: stay with us.

It's made me want to find a hole in the world, in the shape of me, and just fill it up

Don't you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered - and I was delivered to you - to be worn. I want you to wear me, like a watch-charm or a buttonhole bouquet.

In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.

A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out.

Having a place in this society is far less important than creating a society in which one would want to have a place.

I am not (yet) facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will then become urgent.

Nobody really wants to be alone. People need people.

Wouldn't it be nice if all the people who are lonesome could live in one big dormitory, sleep in beds next to each other, talk, laugh, and keep the lights on as long as they want to?

The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them.

I have another explanation [of Brexit]: In its 43 years of EU membership, Britain has never been able to decide whether it wants to fully or only partially belong to the EU.

As if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. Since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely.

No-one wants to feel like they're constantly auditioning for a place in your life.

I done drew the line. Just like the Alamo. You're either on one side of the line or the other. I don't want to ever leave Texas again.

It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.

Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.