Quotes About Belonging

I'm more black than I am white. That's the accurate answer from my truth.

I'm Irish in the mythic, romantic sense, but in the living sense, I'm a Londoner.

I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me, it is like a mythical place.

I often tell people I don't care whether they join the NAACP or some other group, but you better join something.

It's always good when you see your name with legends of a club like Liverpool. It's a different feeling, and I'm very happy about that.

The name on the front of the jersey is what really matters, not the name on the back.

I miss the sense of belonging on a film as much as I did on 'Call Me By Your Name.'

Now, you may not have known this from my name, Lopez-Cantera, but I'm Jewish.

I've got the big name, but I've always wanted to be in a band, one of a band.

Facebook is not very good at dealing with named groups; they're not very good at saying, 'We've got this book club and I'm a member and you're not.' But membership is one of the precursors to a lot of social action.

When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.

I will play the characters with last names like Sanchez and Gonzalez until the day I die, but I also want to play the 'Michelle Smiths.'

I remember, growing up, it wasn't sexy to be African. We got called names.

I was born in Jamaica, my whole family's Jamaican, and they always give me a hard time for being the least Jamaican member of the family. But I think it's their fault for naming me Sarah.

I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative which can be uninclusive and disempowering.

I really feel stateless, which is not bad, because I always felt a man without a country was not encumbered by narrow loyalties.

I had tried to go to college, and I didn't really fit in. I went to a real narrow-minded school where people gave me a lot of trouble, and I was hounded off the campus - I just looked different and acted different, so I left school.

I never thought about it, but as an atheist, maybe Nascar is my church?

L.A. was never me. Nashville is my home.

We'll settle in Nashville. I love it there. I've got lots of friends there now, I love the area.

My stuff lives in Nashville but I live wherever my children are.

Nashville's been like my second home.

I feel unabashedly Indian, and this means that not just do I jump to my feet and sing along with the national anthem, it also makes me inexplicably sentimental, proud and teary-eyed.

When I represent the Under-21s and sing the national anthem, there is no better feeling.