Quotes About Belonging

Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I'm proud to be Latina.

Once you become an immigrant, the first thing that is taken from you is the opportunity to talk about politics and to talk about yourself as a political being.

And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.

Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.

I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.

Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading "Confused.

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.

If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.

People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.

If you don't like me, if you like me; both are equally cool. I send love and positive energy to all those people in their lives. I hope they find where they're meant to be.

After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.

Go where you are wanted and stray from where you aren't. Surround yourself with positive people and environments.

There are two kinds of homeland: one that is given is like a negative, and one that you have to conquer is like the positive.

When insecurity starts to rub off on you, you begin to lose a sense of belonging.

Where could I call home? Only in my heart.

East or West, Home is BestNorth or South, Hand to Mouth

A true hero make people feel like he is part of their family.

In all, Nigeria belongs to us all and we have a personal responsibility to see that it succeeds

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.

Our power lies in our love of our homelands.

Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power.

But, on another level it's really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast Club or something like that, if I can be so bold to associate with The Breakfast Club.

She wrote that she, too, always felt an outsider "...even to myself.