Backgrounds Quote by Neneh Cherry

I had never had a deep sense of belonging anywhere. I always felt I was an outsider.

— Chirlane McCray

The sense of belonging is revived only among foreigners

— Abdullah

As an outsider myself, I always mixed myself with different groups...I've never been afraid to go into a different space and relate to those…

— Trevor Noah

Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.

— Jacinda Barrett

I'm from an upper-middle class background. But because there was no one of my race where I grew up, I was very isolated. I…

— Courtney A. Kemp

My family comes from New Zealand, but I'm a London girl. I was born and raised in London, but I've got the blood of…

— Natasha Bedingfield

I always had this put-together family, and I always identified as the outsider. And that's a position where I feel most comfortable, and yet…

— Lily King

I liked the idea of being from 'somewhere else.' I do think that's inherited. My father never had a fixed sense of where home…

— Claire Messud

Me being a black girl in London, whose mom is first-generation African and whose dad is West Indian, gives me a different view. I'm…

— Estelle

“I have always admired people with strong roots, people who know where their home is and feel at one with themselves there, but that…

— Yangzom Brauen

I'm from multiple heritages and multiple cultures and I was raised as such as a person.

— Raye

My parents raised my brother and me with two cultures, American and Spanish, and I feel a true sense of belonging to both.

— Hilaria Baldwin