Quotes About Belonging

Damien maintains, half-seriously, that followers of the footage comprise the first true freemasonry of the new century.

Just now she wishes lives could be replaced as easily, but knows that that isn't right. However odd things seem, mustn't it be to exactly that extent of oddness that a life is one's own, and no one else's?

We have to face it at last. We're not all human.

Listen all of you. Me and my hunters, we're living along the beach by a flat rock. We hunt and feast and have fun. If you want to join my tribe come and see us. Perhaps I'll let you join. Perhaps not.

Isn't it awful what we'll do in this world to feel wanted?

What is life? Life is the Nation. The individual must die anyway.

I never had a biological sister, yet the more closely I work with women in the Church, the more surely I know there is a spiritual sisterhood.

Home is where the house is.

How can you make your change a matter of identity rather than a matter of consequences?

It's rude to make people feel they're being excluded from a conversation.

These moments are strengthened because we share them with others.

Transcendence: help others realize their potential • Self-actualization: realize our own potential, self-fulfillment, peak experiences • Aesthetic: symmetry, order, beauty, balance • Learning: know, understand, mentally connect • Esteem: achieve, be competent, gain approval, independence, status • Belonging: love, family, friends, affection

What I am leaving behind—I cannot articulate what it is, but I know I will not find it, ever, in America.

I didn't leave Africa, I left Nigeria, and for political reasons. But ... I've never, never left Africa, and I certainly never left what it means to be Ibo. That is something you carry with you.

But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don't show him that he counts for something?

Off the bike she was like a smoker without cigarettes, never sure what to do with her hands. As soon as she got off the bike, her heart was expected to perform all these baffling secondary functions like loving someone and feeling something and belonging somewhere - when all she'd ever trained it to do was pump blood.

I do not think you are wrong for living the life you were born in. A dog must be a dog and a wolf must be a wolf, that is the proverb in my county

I do not think I have left my country. I think it has traveled with me

We looked as if we'd been cobbled together in Photoshop, the three of us, walking to my husband's funeral. One white middle-class mother, one skinny black refugee girl, and one small Dark Knight from Gotham City.

I sat in the ground, with the warm sun shining on my back, and I realized that the earth had not rejected me and the sunlight had not snapped me in two.

Truly, this is the one thing that people from your country and people from my country agree on. They say, That refugee girl is not one of us. That girl does not belong. That girl is a halfling, a child of an unnatural mating, an unfamiliar face in the moon.

I learned your language and I learned your rules. I am more like you than me now.

London was perfectly prepared to give him a night out of anywhere on earth, and yet all he asked was to come home.

Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman