Quotes About Belonging

I never had had a large group of friends, so I often felt a little out of place and like I was in a different mindset from everyone else around me because I was so focused on my acting career.

Your government is no longer mine.

Sometimes I come home and still can't believe it's all mine.

I don't really think of Minnesota when I think of home.

I was in Minnesota and Illinois when I wrote 'How to Leave Hialeah.' When I come to Miami, I'm happy. I don't need to write in Miami.

Minnesota's been good to me.

I have made the best of friends in Minnesota. And I just have so much love for it.

Growing up, I played hockey because I loved playing it. I didn't view myself in minor hockey as a Black hockey player, but I was also aware that I was.

Ethnic minorities are not one homogeneous political group.

I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.

When you grow up as a minority in a majority culture, a lot of times, you're just trying to fit in.

Where do I fit in? That's something I think about as an actor, especially as an actor from a minority community.

I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.

Definitely the Korean culture is very strong to me, and I grew up in Hawaii where Asian-Americans are the dominant culture, but I never thought of myself as the minority.

When I started acting... the community was largely Chinese-American or Japanese-American, so even then I felt like a minority in the minority.

I've spent my entire adult life encouraging minority communities to get involved in mainstream society, civic society.

I am extremely proud to be of Tongan and Samoan descent. We are really proud of our culture and, really, just being a minority.

I know personally that being a conservative minority is a test of character. Identity, after all, is an integral and cherished part of the self.

Most of my friends were white. I grew up really the only minority in my school, along with my sister.

Those who do not share the concerns of the Sangha cannot be a part of the Sangha.

It's a folk art of sorts, I said to Hoeller, always longing to kill oneself but being kept by one's watchful intelligence from killing oneself, so that the condition is stabilized in the form of lifelong controlled suffering, it's an art possessed only by this people and those belonging to it.

Go where thou wilt, thou canst not go out of thy Father's ground.

And we feel that those characters couldn't be anywhere but where they are, that those characters couldn't say the things they say if they were uprooted and planted in, say, Minnesota or Scotland.

As Antigone said, I am neither a dweller among men nor ghosts.