Quotes About Belonging

Emotionally, I love Monaco. This is my club.

Acceptance at home is fundamental, yes, but frankly, it's just not enough. Trans youth, like most young people, spend the majority of their time at school. If you spent Monday to Friday from 8 to 3 being told that you weren't okay, that you were wrong, how are you meant to think otherwise?

There is an insuperable problem about introducing immigrants to British values. There are no British values. Nor are there any Serbian or Peruvian values. No nation has a monopoly on fairness and decency, justice and humanity.

I just like to have one foot in Montana and one foot out.

Though I had been born in Maryland, Montana was where I truly belonged.

I have been living in Montgomery so long that I call it home.

Once I was gone for a month and I was just miserable, so I flew back from Florida for two hours just to be home and see my cats.

The feeling being back in Montreal, it will never change. Montreal's going to be home because of the relationships that I've built here.

In comics, we're all weird together. I can go to a comics convention and not stand out, even though I'm the only woman in a headscarf there, because the guy next to me has a beard and a Sailor Moon costume.

Moonlight is my theater group. They are my home. I feel greatly appreciated there. That type of satisfaction, money can't buy.

More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.

Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.

Race is not something inherent to one's being: One does feel more or less colored, depending on the situation.

The fact is, I'm half-British, half-Malaysian. For an Asian who's grown up in America to be commenting on how Asian I am when they've never left America... does that make them more or less Asian than me?

I always find that the more Jewish you are, the more people respect you.

Fashion can really give you an identity if you're looking for one and I think the more people that know that, the less identity crises we'll have in the world.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

Everyone is so estranged; no one is rooted. That's what I like to write about more than anything else. Everything being so mixed up. Racially mixed up, people moving from place to place, everything shifting.

I'm a Londoner more than anything else.

What I really wanted more than anything was to be part of something.

I'm very attached to my roots, but I feel Italian more than anything else.

More than anything, I'm proud to say I'm from Saginaw.

I still feel Mormon. Those men in Salt Lake City can't decide who's Mormon and who isn't.

I was born in Morocco and lived there until I was 13; I'm really proud of my heritage.