Quotes About Belonging

II I'm no longer myself in here I know I'm number fifteen in the eleventh Row

Là où on s'aime, il ne fait jamais nuit.

Now he could say for sure that he'd never known a feeling stronger than that of being at one with another person - that rare feeling of not being alone anymore.

I ne poznavaju?i je, on je ose?ao da njih dvoje dele isti bol. Ona je svoj nosila kao zastavu, a on je svoj skrivao iza titule doktora. Mada, na kraju krajeva, pripadali su istoj grupi.

No había duda, ahí en su desnudez, en su abrazo, se hallaba mi casa.

Usté me va a perdonar, pero apenas entiendo lo que dice. A nosotros ya no nos gusta hablar la lengua mexicana.» ¿Cuánto se perdió en el camino para que esa mujer se haya alienado de su idioma y por tanto, de su identidad? Tú la hubieras reprendido. La lengua es el último baluarte de la resistencia.

Nuestra identidad depende de los vínculos que creamos, sea con seres humanos o con mascotas. Somos con quienes nos relacionamos»

Feet are what connect you to the ground, and when you are poor, none of that ground belongs to you.

People who have lived their whole lives feeling half-complete. Who never truly fit anywhere in the world. Who never understood why they were here, or what they were meant for. Who never answered the call, because they never heard it. Because nothing ever spoke to them.

It is the concern of every immigrant that their offspring will grow to embrace their adoptive culture at the expense of their natural heritage.

Uno tiene que estar en algún lado, si tan sólo se pudiera ser sin estar entonces podría ser lo que se dice un alma solitaria.

hogar, país? Es posible que los seres humanos se den cuenta algún día de que todos estos valores son abstractos y que para vivir sólo necesitamos, en realidad, un lugar habitable".

I am a hyphenated person, but I am not falling apart; I am putting together.

Doesn't matter where you go, home is uphill

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.

Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters.

Các dân t?c ??u b? tính cách c?a chính h? th?ng tr?; và t?t c? nh?ng thi?t ch? nào không ???c ?úc khuôn v?a v?n v?i tính cách ?y s? ch? là th? qu?n áo vay m??n, m?t th? gi? trang t?m th?i.

To belong to a school is necessarily to espouse its prejudices.

Pocho: An Americanized Mexican.

She had come to accept, deeply, and with certitude, that she had been born into a world, a life, that would not let her be whole.

Shelter can be hard to find. A place can become our home for reasons we do not understand. We build the memories that turn into what we are, then what we were, as we look back.

Maybe home for some is always the one they lost.

We are children of earth and sky.

The effect of being violently driven from home, and that home being despoiled .... it can go on and on like sea-surf against rocks. On and on within a man or a woman, or within a child as it grows up somewhere else, never sat home, only away .