Clive Sinclair Quotes

I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.

But I can definitely say that when I go back to China, I feel very foreign there.

The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.

I really don't even think of myself as being Jewish except when I'm in Germany.

My family is first-generation Nigerian, and we grew up in a very small, suburban town in New England, Massachusetts. So I do understand what it feels like to be an 'only' in that regard.

I'm stuck somewhere a small island in the middle of the Atlantic where I'm alone. Because in France, they're like, 'No, you're not like us, you're not a French guy.' And in America, they're like, 'You're not like us.' I'm really alone in my little thing.

I often hear them accuse Israel of Judaizing Jerusalem. That's like accusing America of Americanizing Washington, or the British of Anglicizing London. You know why we're called 'Jews'? Because we come from Judea.

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.

I've always felt like a foreigner wherever I've lived. I don't feel much towards my Italian or Scottish roots, although I do cook the pasta at home.

When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.

I've begun to think like a Jew, to feel like a Jew.

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

Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.

My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?

I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.

Jewish history has been in my cultural DNA since I was a child growing up in post-war London. In the midst of that dark, gray, lamenting monochromatic world of the '50s, I had a sense that both Jewish and English history were full of color and light and animation.

My parents decided - because they were not going to teach us anything Jewish at home - to send both me and my sister to a Jewish primary school. So I went to Kerem Primary School in Hampstead Garden Suburb. But, for me, that school really didn't work that well.

[Jews have] a particular need, evidently greater than that of any others, to pay more careful attention to education.

When English education was introduced in this country, the Mahomedans did not accept it… They did not accept English education and at the same time they were divorced from the culture which their fathers had advanced. The result was that whereas the Hindus got on in life, got into government employment, got many things which people value in life, the Mahomedans were left without it and gradually there came to be a sort of estrangement between the two nationalities

I have a very strong sense of who I am as a Jew and a strong sense of belonging.

I hated school. I travelled so much in my early years that I didn't understand the process. I felt suffocated - not like I was some grandiose artist; I just felt like an alien.

When you live in a country where your own language is considered foreign, you can feel a continuous sense of estrangement. You speak a secret, unknown language, lacking any correspondence to the environment. An absence that creates a distance within you.

There can be no equivocation. I am Jewish.

Although I hold a German passport, I feel very much alienated when I'm there.