Quotes About Belonging

I feel more Scottish than Norman.

I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.

We can embrace the idea of a North Carolina that's truly for all of us.

No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York City; I'm going to be who I am.

I went to college in North Carolina, so something about being in the East Coast is home for me.

Yeah, I'm from North Carolina, but grew up in Eastern Europe, and became a woman in London.

I do want to go home. That's my dream. North Korea is still my home.

I'm from all over the Northeast.

I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.

My heart belongs to the Dimasa people and to the people of the northeast.

I have always thought of myself as being Northern Irish because that's what I am.

There is something quintessentially northern in my DNA, even though I've lived in London since I was 18.

I love coming back around Northern California.

I love going back to Northern Ireland.

It's a complicated relationship with the place one grows up in, particularly if it's Northern Ireland.

It's strange coming back to Northern Ireland, but it feels like a home away from home.

I'm from Norway, but I always felt like I'd grown up with British culture.

I dream in Norwegian, I count in Norwegian so that basically makes me Norwegian now, I suppose.

I get very sentimental, I get very nostalgic, and when I live in a place, I instantly put down way too many roots.

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

A lot of people are not interested in stories in which they don't see themselves.

I've always been a bit of a lost soul, and I think that goes back to me being adopted and not knowing my roots.

I've always felt robbed of something by people not knowing I was a Jew.

Color don't mean nothin'. 'Cause we're all God's children.