Quotes About Belonging

I was at all-white schools from kindergarten to twelfth grade, so I wanted to feel what it was like just to be me and not, like, Black Amy.

When the boys and girls would line up separately in kindergarten, I'd find myself longing to be in the other line.

I didn't want to look distinguished; I wanted to look fun, and also to fade into the street, into the King's Road. If I don't fade into a room at White's, that's fine. My father was chairman of Brooks' and the Beefsteak, and I was brought up in that life, and it bores me rigid.

Jews are an important part of our kingdom, and I am happy you chose to gather here in our country.

I used to come to school with my school bag hanging on one shoulder and the cricket kit on the other. It was pretty cool and I felt special.

I never fit in. Everyone knew my dad was Indian. I was half-Indian.

I want to stay with the Knicks. They have great fans, team, organization, people. I would love to stay here.

When I was eight my mum said, 'You must integrate otherwise you won't fit it in. You must talk like de Dudley people dem.' Suddenly this thing of having a Jamaican attitude got knocked out of us.

When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.

Knowing that you're not alone, and that people genuinely care, is really important.

I'm just a Connecticut country boy. The people I've known, the changes of season, the call of the blue jay - when I'm away, all of them haunt me.

I was part of a very uncool group. It was a group that liked classical music. They were known as the Music School Gang or, less charitably, the Poof Gang.

My father belongs to Muzaffarnagar. Though I was born and brought up in Delhi, we, as a family, are known as U.P. wallahas.

When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.

I love the sense of belonging in Hong Kong. I love that it is such an international city. I love our food and our language. The people are energetic and passionate. I just really love this city.

I really feel that Hong Kong is my home, and Hong Kong is my identity as an actor.

I'm a third-culture child. It's an interesting concept. Having an American father, a South American mother, born in England, grew up in Hong Kong, went to school in Europe - it makes me a third-culture child, which means you take on the culture of the place where you live. So I'm very adaptable.

Having grown up under Chinese rule, I don't have any memory of colonial Hong Kong or feel any attachment to it.

Hong Kong people may be ethnically Chinese, but lots of people do not consider ourselves, including me, as Chinese citizens.

I was born and raised in West Hills. I moved to Korea when I was 15. I've been back and forth since.

People ask where I'm from, and I say 'Los Angeles.' Then they ask again. 'Well, my parents are from Korea.'

I was born in Korea and left before my first birthday.

In the States I might be an Asian face, look different from everyone else in TV and in music, but in Korea I look like everybody else, in Asia I look like everybody else.

I lived in Korea when I was young, so it was great to be back, close to my family.