Felt Quote by Snoh Aalegra

I think, a lot of my career and my life before I went to Sweden, I felt like I was trying to be someone…

— Christen Press

In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids…

— Joel Kinnaman

Culturally, I and the people I grew up around were very much the same. It was only randomly that I was reminded that I…

— Myha'la

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

— Kate Bosworth

There's racism everywhere in the world; it's not just Sweden, it's everywhere, but other than that I had a pretty okay upbringing.

— Snoh Aalegra

What's sometimes really overwhelming in Sweden is the uniformity. People kind of disappear by all looking the same and wearing the same clothes. There…

— Neneh Cherry

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 feel like it's me singing back to myself as a younger person and saying have confidence in being a bit different. I really…

— Corinne Bailey Rae

All Scandinavians feel a tiny bit self conscious, of which I'm one.

— Mike Leach

When you're a foreigner, at the beginning you are far away from the culture. Then, little by little, you start to interact with people,…

— Olivier Martinez

Growing up in a multicultural family, I never really felt that I was different - even though I was from most of the kids…

— Priscilla Ahn

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