Quotes About Belonging

Music and comedy, musical comedy, specifically, really helped me through my childhood. I felt out of place, I felt lots of adversity, and I felt scared all the time.

I think that brown people are attracted to rock music because it speaks on the spectrum of pain that brown people are predisposed to.

I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.

We are a spectrum of colors in our family and that's what makes us so special.

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

Other kids could read, other kids could write, other kids could spell, they could do math. I felt like an alien. I felt like an outcast. I felt like, 'What is going to happen to me?'

I could keep McQuiston, but growing up it was a hard-work surname. Everyone would always ask me to spell it or just get it wrong. I could call myself Emma Weymouth, or maybe I should take the family name and become Emma Thynn.

I would love to spend more time in Britain one day. In my heart, I still feel that I'm English, and when I think of home, I think of England.

Spending years between America and Israel, I have gained a global view, and the planet is my home.

As a kid, I spent a lot of my mental energy hiding who I was and attempting to fit in.

In one way or another, everybody has this experience in their lives... the moment when you have to define your relationship to family and how your family's made you who you are, whether you've spent your life running from your family or deeply connected to your family.

I grew up all over the place, but the majority of my years were spent in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.

Before playing football, I didn't fit in anywhere. My parents didn't have a lot of money, which they spent on our education to send us to Catholic private school in Oakland, mostly black. The other kids had more money than I did. I started school early; I was young. So I'd come back to my hood and read.

I do a very good impersonation of an American - I went to high school here - but I've spent most of my life in Russia.

I spent some special years in my hometown of El Paso.

Everyone in the world knows 'Spider-Man.' And to be accepted into such a large franchise was overwhelming.

The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

The more I get connected to my own breath and my own yogic experience and my own prayer and my own idea, the ideas that have existed for so long - that we all belong to each other and we could live a deeper spiritual existence - the more I get connected to that, the more I shun this world.

People are looking for a way in which their spiritual life can be deepened. They are finding it in some of our Catholic parishes and sometimes not in others, and that opens the door for them to go elsewhere.

When I first came to Harvard, I thought to myself, 'What kind of an Indian am I?' because I did not grow up on a reservation. But being an Indian is a combination of things. It's your blood. It's your spirituality. And it's fighting for the Indian people.

I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches.

The fact that I am not Jewish by religion does not prevent me from connecting to the Jewish nation's spirituality.

I think being in the world of R&B creates a sense of home, and I think it's important to have that sense of home and spirituality within your music.