Quotes About Belonging

My dad is from Panama; he came to the U.S. in 1971. He came to study chemical engineering at the University of Delaware. He thought he would go back, and then he met my mom here. I was born and mostly raised in Delaware.

Home is where my house pants live. And they're hideous.

You want to defend citizenship? Don't persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like a citizen. That'd be a first-class way to be American.

Where I grew up, people obviously knew my dad because it's a small place and he was the top player for Swinton - they'd go and watch him play, see him in the papers, so they knew he was black.

I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.

There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

I didn't choose Paris. I like to think that the city chose me.

Even if I have a home in Paris and sometimes in New York, whenever I was saying I have to go home, it was going to my mother.

Today, I'm Brazilian, born in Rio de Janeiro, but my second home is Paris. Nobody can change that.

I want to be adopted by the French. I want to go to live in Paris.

Paris is beautiful, but nothing beats home.

Paris is where my family are, but it's not really home now because I have dear friends in London and dear friends in New York.

I like 'Paris is Burning' by Jennie Livington.

I was born in Paris. I grew up here, and I still live here, and I will forever, I think.

Paris is in my story. Nobody can take it away.

I definitely feel like Paris is my home.

I feel very much at home in Paris, but I'm attached to New York.

I know Paris is my hometown, but I would never say, 'Oh, I'm going home back to Paris.' Because we kept moving when I was a child, my home was just where I was at that moment.

I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.

Jersey is always with me. I was one of the lucky ones. Asbury Park is just the greatest place in the world to spend your childhood.

I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park.