Quotes About Belonging

The longing for Europe has been all but extinguished in the young.

I been all around the world and I haven't found a city that I'd rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles.

I always love going back to Los Angeles, because it was my home for 24 years, and I have many friends there.

I knew I had to stop running. I had to be in a place. Los Angeles became that place.

I am from Los Angeles, and my parents are from Los Angeles.

It is important to me that I was not raised in Los Angeles.

My first son was born in Los Angeles; he's a Mexican-American.

America has always been a nation of small places, and as we lose them, we're losing part of ourselves.

Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.

Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You're always home.

When I'm with the people who love me, I feel boo'iful.

It's such an amazing thing to be loved for who you are.

I have my family, my loved ones and they love me for who I am.

It's lovely to feel part of a community.

Loving a country is an act of the imagination.

I don't have one geographic location that I'm exclusively loyal to.

And I think it's important to remain loyal to your home country, from where you started.

There are people for everybody, and luckily, I found mine.

It takes time to come into yourself and realize your worth and realize your place and try to fit in, and for some people, it doesn't happen until way later in life, but, luckily for me, I realize I am around people, and I can't try to be like anyone else because I am me, and that's what's cool about me.

I never had a family, and now I do. I know I'm a very lucky guy.

I moved all the time as part of a military family, and I just really did not have very many friends. I remember having these feelings of walking into a room and feeling that nobody likes me, or thinking, 'I'm going to have to sit alone at lunch again.'

I consider myself to be from Madrid because I arrived very young, but I do not forget my years in Lens - of which I am also proud.

When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me.

When you're bi-racial, in the town I was in, in Maine, people kept asking, 'What are you?' It was like I wasn't even human.