Quotes About Belonging

When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.

We moved around so much when I was a kid, the place I call home is New Orleans because at least I can remember the names of some of the streets there.

I grew up in the streets of San Diego, and I love this city dearly. I love this city. San Diego is my home. Even though I represent Los Angeles, this is my home.

I have always drawn strength from being close to home.

I stay in Jersey - it's home, man. It's home. And I think that's the foundation of the true strength of the communities where we live in America.

As burned as I've been by local churches and by people who call themselves in God's name, Jesus gave us the church. It's supposed to be a community of like-minded people who encourage and strengthen each other. But that's not how it always works.

It's always good to go home. It's strengthening to see your past and know you have someplace to go where you're part of a people.

The England team is made up of good people, first and foremost, and we are a very multicultural side, too. I believe we represent our country well and our diversity is one of our strengths.

I'm trying to find a home that I can come home to, and there's no stress or pressure to be scared to be in your own house.

My father, who is deeply spiritual and religious, always stressed that my siblings and I remain true to our Indian roots.

It has been stressful to be a French resident in America.

I feel the same way about Shondaland I feel about Africa and Greece. I feel pretty in both places. Men look at me like I'm a novelty, and women think I'm just cool. I feel absolutely at home immediately. I'm not altering myself to fit in. I'm walking in just as I am. And there are open arms stretched out to greet me.

There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.

If I go anywhere where there are people who vaguely look like me, there is always that feeling of, 'Actually I do look quite similar to everyone else.' At moments like that, I become very, very British. My accent gets more clipped, and I stride around as if I've got an empire.

It's been a challenge for me my whole life in that my insides don't necessarily match my outsides... People try to strike up a conversation with me about Dungeons & Dragons or comic books, and I'm like, 'I can't. I'm sorry.'

The fact that I'm a fifth of Punch Brothers... that's lucky for me because I feel like I get to operate in the context of one of the great string bands. There's just not another string band I would rather be in, and i'm just compelled to make music for and with string bands. It's what I know, and it's kind of like who I am.

When you're biracial, you can feel like you're fully neither, not fully both. But I won't strip away my heritage for anyone's comfort.

Someone on the Scottish side of the family got me one and I never took it off. I would be down the country park playing in a Celtic strip in England.

It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.

When you never see yourself in the mainstream format, you are stripped of the strength of your identity.

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate. So, with reckless abandon, we strive to be like the majority.

It's one of those things; you just get a very nice stroke from being included in the next thing.

I'm very grateful for being in this band, but there are only five people who know what it's like to be in the Strokes. I'm part of 'them,' but I can see people trying to separate me out from the band's reputation.

Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.