Quotes About Belonging

In a sense, by closing off the idea that young Muslims, and particularly young Muslim men, can be American heroes, it increases the chance that they'll try to be some other kind of hero. And that, I think, is entirely counterproductive.

Paradoxically, by insisting on engaging with Muslims as a separate group, the authorities make many of them feel even more excluded.

I grew up in Varanasi where there would be a communal riot every other week. Then I moved to Aligarh, where the Muslims made me feel completely at home. They never made me feel different, so when did this business of 'them' and 'us' start?

Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.

I can be a mix of both. I don't have to be an Indian or an American. They're not mutually exclusive. It's something growing up I didn't know.

In high school, I felt pressure to fit in with groups and with people who didn't actually want to be my friend. That's something I learned moving forward into adulthood: to keep the people around me people who love me for exactly who I am.

Coming out as a Barbra Streisand fan was way more embarrassing than coming out as a lesbian. To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip - artists were supposed to be like cowboys.

I think my generation is defining themselves as Canadian artists.

My generation of black British people often feels part American because of what we learned from TV.

My journey into the world of work after that was a bit more piecemeal than I would have liked, and it took a while to find the place in the world where I truly felt I belonged.

When I came to Australia in 1987 as an adoptee from India, I could not have had any idea where my life journey would take me.

I've never fit in anywhere in my life. Ever.

I am my own home, and my handkerchief is my flag.

I've always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.

Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.

New York is in my soul.

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.

My soul is still Irish.

All of the songs on 'Kiddo' were a part of my soul; they're songs that I could never give away.

I sing the Italian anthem with all my soul, with my whole body.

I believe my soul isn't entirely German because my home is so disorderly.

I spend so much of my time working away, but I love being here. My family is in Somerset, and this is where my heart is.

I think I was born out of my time.

I think people have this idea that I just lived in my place in England and never left. During 'Looking,' I was in America for four years. I've got a green card. I spend half my time there. It doesn't feel like an alien world at all.