Quotes About Belonging

I love being part of the ASCAP family of songwriters and composers.

It is the pride of my heart to have been one of the earliest adopted sons of America.

I was just this little theater geek. I joined the drama program my freshman year. I read the morning announcements my sophomore year. I didn't have to eat in the cafeteria with everyone else because my drama teacher was cool. Everybody knew who I was, and that's all I ever wanted as a theater kid.

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

I'm very grateful to my adoptive family. My mother sorted my life out.

It takes more than just walking across the border to become an American citizen. It's what's in our souls.

It's going to sound cheesy, but if I have family and friends I don't really care where I am.

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

I think the best way to deal with fitting in is to be yourself. It sounds hard, but in the end, it's much easier than pretending to be something you're not.

By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.

I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.

As an Anglo-Indian kid in Bolton, I was basically in a minority of one. That was a source of misery, but at the same time, one of the effects of receiving the message that you don't belong to the club is that you watch the club with detachment. The fact that no one quite knew who I was was a major contributory factor in starting to write.

South Central is just who I am.

It's something to be proud of... I'm a proud New South Welshman.

I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.

I'm from Raleigh, North Carolina, and I can't lie... I missed the South since I've been gone!

I think we have really integrated well around Manchester. This is the place where we feel at home. We like it here, we love the English way of life and we prefer it much, much more than the south of Europe.

Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting.

As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.

Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

I belong in America more than South Africa. I can't remember the feeling of living there anymore. It's like it was in another life. That's sad in a way. It is my country. It's where I grew up. You don't know what it's like to have these negative feelings about your homeland. There are roots you can't escape.

I never think of playing for South Africa. It's the furthest thing from my mind.