Quotes About Belonging

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

We of alien looks or words must stick together.

...A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You, the people must git it this soul.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.

Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, be

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

Maybe that's what living in America does to you: it spreads you into far distances until you're just little bits rolling apart.

When we came to America, though, we didn't know what the right thing was.

Better I am poor in a country where I can feel at home. Where I am wanted, than to live like this.

Honey, your uncle don't even have his papers right. What kind of liberties you think he has?" Aisha

One day she'll exist on paper in this country. She can sit on buses and take classes and get a job and never again feel that churning in her stomach if someone asks for ID.

In high school everyone thought I was kind of a freak. 'Rock Girl,' they'd call me. But around here people think it's okay. That's what's so cool about college, you know? You have a million kids doing all kinds of weird things here.

Es war nicht Backstein und Beton, die aus diesem Gebäude ein Zuhause machten, es war das Netz der Menschen und dieses komische Wort, das die laute Gladys auf ein Stück Stoff gestickt hatte: GEMEINSINN.

You can't love a city if you have no memories burried there.

São vários os orfãos dos cafés. Quem os frequentou e perdeu abrigo, mas, sobretudo, quem busca em vão um domicílio para a sua relação com a cidade.

I thought you were Mexican." "If you're Mexican, you're part Indian. And part Spaniard. Part eagle. Dog. Snake. Parts from whatever no one else wants." Coyote

Pero como aprendí varios años más tarde, las equidistancias nunca duran mucho, y tenía que decidirme por una u otra orilla. Y estaba claro que yo pertenecía sólo a una de ellas.

los jóvenes emigran pero a veces les viene un dolor en el pecho que se llama nostalgia cuando reciben cartas de aquel barrio lejano tienen listo un secante para chupar las lágrimas algunos resolvieron quedarse pese a todo otros dijeron basta para siempre hay jóvenes que emigran / dicen chau los que se quedan tiemblan en silencio.

Cada uno ES de un solo sitio en la tierra y allí debe pagar su cuota. Yo soy de aquí.

I can't help thinking: Am I related in some traceable way to all redheads, if there were any such genetic thing as "all redheads"?

The Crone has been missing from our culture for so long that many women, particularly young girls, know nothing of her tutelage. Young girls in our society are not initiated by older women into womanhood with its accompanying dignity and power. Without the Crone, the task of belonging to oneself, of being a whole person, is virtually impossible.

The Berkeley psychologist had called Dev "self-possessed" and at the time, he hadn't been exactly sure what that meant, but as he played chess with Clare, the word suddenly made perfect sense. The same way Teo and Cornelia belonged to Clare, Clare belonged to herself. Clare liked being Clare, the same way that Dev had always (even when he was friendless and invisible) liked being Dev.