CURATED COLLECTION

Finding a Sense of Belonging

The hunger to be truly known and accepted somewhere — and what it costs to go without it.

21 quotes found

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We carry our ancestors within us, their voices in our blood.

—Patricia GraceAuthor

Late Modern ERA • Oceania

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The eye does not tire of weeping for a noble man lost.

—Al-KhansaPoet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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The blood knows its way home.

—Velma PollardPoet, Novelist & Scholar

Late Modern ERA • Caribbean

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Let me begin again. Let me put down my guns.

—Ocean VuongPoet & Novelist

Digital Age ERA • North America

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We carry our homes within us, a portable landscape of memory and belonging.

—Judith Ortiz CoferWriter

Late Modern ERA • Caribbean

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To be loved is to be seen.

—Ocean VuongPoet & Novelist

Digital Age ERA • North America

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The past lives within us, a drumbeat in our bones.

—Sia FigielNovelist & Poet

Late Modern ERA • Oceania

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It's a wise girl who knows her own father. It's a wiser one who finds him in her dreams.

—Marilyn MonroeActress

Post-War ERA • North America

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We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, wherever that may be.

—Bienvenido SantosNovelist & Writer

Post-War ERA • Southeast Asia

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We carried the scent of home in our hair.

—Velma PollardPoet, Novelist & Scholar

Digital Age ERA • Caribbean

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Language is the home that cannot be taken from you.

—Pham Thi HoaiNovelist & Essayist

Late Modern ERA • Southeast Asia

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I came to Comala because I was told my father lived there. My mother told me.

—Juan RulfoNovelist, Writer & Author

Post-War ERA • Latin America

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What is a suitable boy? One who loves you, or one who merely suits you?

—Vikram SethNovelist & Poet

Late Modern ERA • South Asia

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To be a Bengali is to be nostalgic for something you've never known.

—Jhumpa LahiriAuthor

Contemporary ERA • South Asia

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Home is where the heart breaks, again and again, and still we return.

—R. Zamora LinmarkNovelist & Poet

Late Modern ERA • Southeast Asia

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My mother tongue is the house I carry on my back.

—Meena AlexanderPoet & Memoirist

Contemporary ERA • South Asia

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At a certain point I lost track of you. You needed me to live somewhere else.

—Agha Shahid AliPoet

Late Modern ERA • South Asia

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By God, he was the master of all, a refuge in times of peril.

—Al-KhansaPoet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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Quiet peace, and a house to call home. What more could one ask?

—Vikram SethNovelist & Poet

Late Modern ERA • South Asia

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Home is where one starts from.

—T.S. EliotModernist Poet, Critic

Early Modern ERA • North America

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