Marek Hlasko Quotes

You carry your country with you, it's part of your baggage.

Homeland is something one becomes aware of only through its loss.

The homeland affects you directly: it affects your body; it affects the collective mind and the collective heart and the collective spirit.

I cannot live anywhere else except India.

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

I've never stopped being Argentine, and I've never wanted to. I feel very proud of being Argentine, even though I left there. I've been clear about this since I was very young, and I never wanted to change.

In America, we all come from somewhere else, and we carry along some dream myth of home: a notion that something - our point of origin, our roots, the home country - is out there.

Everyone comes back. It makes no difference how far we wander, we always have our country, our land, in our souls and our minds.

Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.

America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul.

Although I was always very happy in Britain, I never stopped thinking of America as home, in the fundamental sense of the term. It was where I came from, what I really understood, the base against which all else was measured.

I was born in India - but never really lived there.

I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It's no fun to be in exile. I can't even figure out the basic 26 letters, let alone operate, in English. I often feel that although I've found the sky of freedom above my head, I've lost the soil I stand on. I need to be back in my motherland, where I can find inspirations.

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.

I can't really live outside Jamaica. I can be away, but only for a while.

I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile.

One of my clearest impressions about India as a child was that my parents' stories would have been impossible had they stayed. Of course, such a vision was self-serving, for it made a virtue of our displacement.

India is home, and that's never going to change.

Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging.

I don't necessarily feel like I'm American. I wouldn't know what that feels like.

My whole identity comes from Pakistan.

I'm gonna be real everywhere I go, but I'm with my people, I'm connected to my roots - I'm in my country! I don't need to live somewhere else.

I'm American by birth, but I consider myself Canadian.

Sting and I need to think what our relationship is to England in the long term.