Common ground Quote by Lizz Wright

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

— Chinua Achebe

We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived…

— Jack Williamson

Over the years since I left home, I have kept thinking about the people I grew up with and about our way of life.…

— Edna Lewis

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

— V. S. Naipaul

Before, I was living in Philadelphia and thinking and speaking of things I had experienced in one environment alone. After leaving, I started to…

— Melody Gardot

I was surrounded by nature growing up, which lent itself to an appreciation for space and nature, but also an understanding of what it's…

— Noah Kahan

I love hearing other people's stories, and I freely admit I'm scavenging for material through their conversations, but really, at the same time, I'm…

— Liane Moriarty

I often feel like an outsider wherever I go, so I'm always attracted to stories about identity and the meaning of home.

— Chloe Zhao

And so much of my life has been about returning home and longing for home, wanting my children to know about my roots. And…

— Sela Ward

I get asked to speak to a lot of different groups, one of the best parts of my job hosting a show on the…

— Andrew Zimmern

A lot of my life has involved with helping create cultures that have as their basis this vision of the sharing, the partaking of…

— Anne Waldman

In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food…

— Emanuel Celler