Quotes About Belonging

I never felt like an outsider in the industry.

I like the idea of being caught between things, always being a bit of an outsider, having an outside eye on things - almost like a Shakespearean fool.

I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.

I have an interest in the outsider.

It's interesting to be at once an insider and outsider. It's a way of learning how to find your way freely without the need of conforming or belonging.

There is an element in some of my work that has to do with being an outsider, feeling like not part of the dominant culture.

I'm still an outsider in the hip hop community. I don't even know if I'm making hip hop anymore.

My identity, I felt, was so distinct. I felt very much like an outsider. My family didn't have the same rituals that everyone else seemed to have.

You go through your life feeling like an outsider, and you respond to society in a different way when you feel like an outsider.

I felt like an outsider in middle school. Horrible.

I think if I was Trinidadian, I would latch more on to the myths and romanticise the place more. I don't think it's my place to do that - they're not really mine. I'm an outsider.

I always felt like something of an outsider. But I identified with people up on the screen. That made me feel like I wanted to be up on the screen too. I felt like eventually I would get there.

I know what it feels like to be an outsider.

I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.

I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.

I was a complete outsider in high school.

I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.

I guess I've lived my whole life as an outsider.

I don't think I'm an outsider at all.

I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner.

I think, at the end of the day, I have an outsider's heart.

I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.

I always feel like an outsider. I'll always feel like the nerd at the party.

In a sense, I feel a lot more an outsider in Los Angeles than I did in Newfoundland.