Quotes About Belonging

The woven belt once worn around the waist by both men and women symbolized the participation of individuals in society, their place in the community, and the agreement to be, quite literally, bound by its rules. When the reverse was practised, taking off one's belt signified a readiness to enter the realm of the spirits. For women, the power could be amplified by unbraiding their hair, as mentioned above.

It's true that a child belongs to its father. But when a father beats his child, it seeks sympathy in its mother's hut. A man belongs to his fatherland when things are good and life is sweet. But when there is sorrow and bitterness he finds refuge in his motherland. Your mother is there to protect you. She is buried there. And that is why we say that mother is supreme.

Un hombre pertenece a la tierra de su padre cuando todo va bien y la vida es agradable. Pero cuando hay penas y amargura se refugia en la tierra de su madre. Tu madre está aquí para protegerte.

Es cierto que los hijos pertenecen a los padres. Pero cuando un padre le pega a su hijo, éste busca consuelo en la cabaña de su madre. Un hombre pertenece al país de su padre cuando las cosas van bien y la vida es dulce: Pero cuando hay pena y amargura, encuentra refugio en la tierra de su madre. Tu madre está ahí para protegerte. Está enterrada ahí. Y por eso decimos que la madre es suprema.

if anybody asks you who you are, tell them you are a child of God." That message translated in such a way that you would never call yourself a slave or tell anyone that you were a child of slaves or that you belonged to a slave owner. As a child of God, you were not a mistake, or a product of lust or rape, but you were meant to be here, to learn, love, and be loved.

People always ask me, how did you grow up to be so confident? I tell them, I always look in the mirror and say I belong, you are so beautiful and you are meant to be here.

There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.

I've always identified with the misfits.

I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine.

I am an Australian citizen, and I miss my country a great deal.

I'm homesick all the time. I miss my animals. I miss my family. I miss my friends.

I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.

I often feel like I could fall off the face of the Earth. As long as 'Mama' was around, nobody would really miss me. People really think of her as an actual person. People all the time see me and ask, 'Where's Mama?' Like she should be with me.

I missed my roots, so I ended up buying a home in Kansas City.

My wife was the part of me that was missing. And I got that whole family that came along with her in the deal. It's an extended family, and they're very close, and it's a dynamic that's never been around me before.

I told my kids, 'It doesn't matter if this person or that person in the family isn't perfect; this is what you've got. We have to work with that, and if you can't work with that, then you're just jumping into someone else's family, and there's always going to be something missing if you don't work that out.'

All cult leaders are very good at supplying people with what they want and are missing in their lives, so they feel loved and that they belong.

Part of my mission as an actor has been to define what an American is.

As a teenager growing up during Jim Crow, all I wanted to do was leave Mississippi. But I came back and raised my own family here.

Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood.

I am myself of a mixed background.

I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.

The experience of being a mixed person is all over the place - one of my best friends is Chinese and Italian; my other best friend is Lebanese and Trinidadian. The mix of heritage, culture or identity is something that our country is built on.

The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black.