Quotes About Belonging

The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.

Ask any man what nationality he would prefer to be, and ninety nine out of a hundred will tell you that they would prefer to be Englishmen

I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

The young man who joins a political party is a traitor to his generation and to his race.

I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.

Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man.

That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.

There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong.

To friends! Life belongs to those who love, and where love reigns is man truly king!

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.

Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.

Why in God's name do you expect to be accepted everywhere? How is it the world couldn't get on with the holiest man that ever lived, and it can get on with you and me?

I'm not just a black man, I'm a brotha. I love my people. When I'm on the air I am fully aware that I am not just representing myself but representing us.

Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.

Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.

I am a Norfolk man and Glory in being so.

No man is an island unto himself.

where a man feels at home, outside of where he's born, is where he's meant to go.