Quotes About Belonging

Although I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet.

I consider myself Russian-American because I'm American by ethnicity and by passport, but I spent all my forming years over in the former Soviet Union in a Russian school. I never went to an American school. There was a lot of culture shock when I moved back to the States when I was 17.

I'm not going to try to deny that I'm a Red Sox fan. I grew up a Red Sox fan, had a great decade here that I really enjoyed, and that will always be a part of me.

Be exactly who you are. You can fit in any space you see yourself in. Be fearless.

Especially for young POC, when we enter majority-white spaces, we feel the need to assimilate, to blend in, to prove ourselves. I don't think we discuss it enough.

Sometimes people of color walk into these spaces that are dominated by the dominant culture, and we have to be better, not make as much trouble.

When I came into stand-up, I found a certain safe space of intellectualism, of camaraderie, of excellence that really has always been natural to me but always felt foreign in the other spaces I've been in.

I'm sober now, but I was partying a lot. Part of it was because gay bars felt like safe spaces... a place where you feel safe and comfortable in your own skin.

Queer clubs are safe spaces because no one's judging you for what the rest of the world is judging you for there.

When we were children, we were told that we have a motherland, and that motherland was Spain. However, we have discovered later, in our lives, that as a matter of fact, we have several motherlands. And one of the greatest motherlands of all is, no doubt, Africa.

Italy and Spain really are not my countries.

My family came from Spain in 1725, and if people want to consider me Hispanic, they can, but I didn't advertise that way, and I'm an American first.

Two prominent terms, 'Latino' and 'Hispanic,' refer to people living in the United States who have roots in Latin America, Spain, Mexico, South America, or Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries.

I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family.And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior

What peace it must be to know that someone is yours, no matter what - it is ordained, can never be otherwise.

No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors.

I want you to make a list of all of your favorite things, and I want to be on it.

You are important to this earth. If you were meant to journey alone, you would not have friends...

Every Day is Canada Day for new Canadians

You're not his, " Bryan said firmly. "Bry, I don't know whose I am anymore.

Home is the place that expects the most of you, but still welcomes you at your worst. And she has always been my home, my Merminia.

The sea was my first home...Now that I had nowhere else to go, this was the last place I felt safe.

when it comes to youit belongs to youand, when it belongs to you, it is your.Take care of your challenges

I belong with the trees, the wind, the earth beneath my feet.I belong in the land of enchanting things.But mostly, I belong entwined in your kiss, lost, yet wild and free, pure bliss, like poetry.