Quotes About Belonging

There is something missing in Asian America. They're missing people to tell them, 'It's okay to be who you are - you belong. Just be unapologetically you; you're not less than anybody else.'

For me, art is like a big support group, where you go and meet people who think the same way, and you go, 'Okay, I'm not nuts.'

When I heard 'Dookie' by Green Day for the first time, it unlocked something in me, like, it's totally okay that I'm a little bit weird because these guys are a little bit weird. It made me want to pick up an instrument and do that.

I can go to all these cool places around the world, but when we land at YYZ, I'm like, 'Yes! It's flat. It's concrete. I'm okay with this; my people are here.'

We all want love and to feel safe, wanted, cared for, to like our selves, our bodies, to have families and feel okay in the world.

I think Barack Obama was born into a home not just to a white woman and white grandparents, but a white woman and white grandparents who shockingly told him it was okay that he was black and that he should not be ashamed of it and that he should, in fact, be proud of it.

I have family in Oklahoma City.

Everybody knows that I like Oklahoma City, and I love being here. I love everybody here.

When people ask me where I'm from I say I'm from Oklahoma.

The people that we met when we lived in Cincinnati, the Midwestern values - I'm from Oklahoma, my wife's from Green Bay - we felt at home in the year we were here.

Where I grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, it wasn't the south-east and it wasn't the deep south and it wasn't quite the south-west either.

I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.

I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.

My real story is this: I am the citizen daughter of immigrant parents who were deported when I was 14. My older brother was also deported.

African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.

Britain today is not revolutionary France. There are no grades of citizenship. An immigrant who has just shaken hands at the end of their citizenship ceremony is as British as a member of the oldest family in the land.

BBC One's 'Noughts and Crosses' feels like catching up with your oldest mates from home.

You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter.

I'm a British citizen, and I'm incredibly proud to represent Great Britain. I've also represented Great Britain in the Olympics, so I'm definitely a British athlete.

I love the fact I am a Cuban American man who represented the United States in the Olympics. I was proud to wear the red-white-and-blue.

Once you are an immigrant, you never forget that you are one.

Home can be the friend you have been searching for all your life or the person you met once very briefly.

I go to church for the cultural element. It's where you go to see Greek people once a week. It's real important to me, and I hope my children see they're part of something bigger than just this family.

The characters in 'Be Near Me' come from a genuine place, a Britain that is more than one country and more than one ideal.