Quotes About Belonging

I am that person that struggled with my identity my whole life.

My dad's white, my mom's black, and I've struggled with being mixed race.

We all want to be identified as someone cool, and I have struggled with repping where I'm from and my heritage before. It's part of growing pains. But when people see me being proud of what I am - and they are what I am too - it makes them proud. That's why I try to represent my Asian and my black side.

I have experienced loneliness at many, many points in my life and felt this profound sense of shame about it - all the years when I was a child that I struggled with feeling lonely when I was scared to go to school and petrified of walking into the elementary school cafeteria because I was worried I wouldn't have anyone to sit with.

As a minority, no sooner do you learn to polish and cherish one chip on your shoulder than it's taken off you and swapped for another. The jewellery of your struggles is forever on loan, like the Koh-i-Noor diamond in the crown jewels.

Everyone has those times when you feel like you don't fit in. Everyone struggles to a certain extent with being cool and popular, but I never really let it affect me. I played sports and did theater, and school was really important to me. I had fun in high school.

I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.

Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; then you become an adult and you think, 'I'm just going to be myself and either they accept it or they don't.' But you know what? I like me, and that's the most important thing.

For me, as an immigrant who didn't speak the language, when I would have struggles as a kid, my dad would say, 'Once you are able to communicate with people, they're able to connect with you beyond your otherness.' That is really the message I've carried throughout my life.

Identity is something everyone struggles with. Everyone wants to fit in and find their place, and it's so hard sometimes.

I absolutely love the connection I have with so many, whether it's about where I came from or struggles I have faced.

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

Christians and Jews alike are the new exiles of the contemporary world, struggling with how to sing the Lord's song in a strange land.

Everyone at a point in their life is struggling to find out who they are and where they belong.

There are families of every kind. I think a lot of people are struggling to make sense of their identity in a very complicated world.

I feel like I've spent a lot of time imagining home and thinking about a dream-like place, as opposed to a real place, because that's not what I was able to do, meaning go home or be home.

I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.

I think we are all trying to figure out what it means to be the Church as opposed to just doing church.

The Grand Ole Opry is an artist, and I am proud to be one of its songs.

I remember as a little kid watching the Opry from the nosebleeds, so to stand onstage and be invited to be a member was really, really cool.

I see myself as, one, an optimist, and two, a member of a huge family, and that's important to me.

There were other clubs that I had options to go to, but Fulham has always kind of been like home to me.

'Orange Is the New Black' was my home show. I knew the set; I knew everyone there.

I think for me, wearing the helmet and being part of the Stormtroopers felt so strange. Like, so this is what it feels like to just be one of the many. And to look the same, and to have to do the same thing. To be under the same orders. This is what it feels like.