Being Quote by Paloma Elsesser

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable…

— Patti Smith

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

I think my parents felt us being a minority a little bit more than I did, and they tried to shelter me from that…

— Nathan Chen

I was a very, I think, lonely kid, very introspective. I felt very much at odds with my environment and my culture... Probably a…

— Maxine Kumin

I felt like an alien. I always felt like I never belonged to any group that I wanted to belong to.

— Steven Spielberg

I think, as a kid, turning on the television and seeing that everyone seemed to be wealthy and white made me feel like an…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I was the only mixed-race girl in my school, but for me, that was a positive thing; it made me unique. If it wasn't…

— Alesha Dixon

I used to think that the feeling of alienation that I would have was just me, but I realise that it's also a symptom…

— Hilton Als

Part of me always felt like the other, the outsider, the observer. My father had two sons with his second wife, who I didn't…

— Elif Safak

I turned down a lot of work. I didn't want to ever feel defined by my ethnicity.

— Jessica Henwick

Being Native American, we were different than everybody else, but I never felt like I was different.

— Kelvin Sampson

I was born in the Eighties, and at that time the idea of having a mixed-race child wasn't welcome. Then I was also an…

— Masaba Gupta