Mustafa Ali Quotes

I've personally been on the outside sometimes. But I was - I personally was never persecuted especially in the way in which sharing my own experiences.

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.

To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.

The Muslim community here does feel under siege.

Increasingly I feel like a Jew, an immigrant, a Russian - anything but a normal, mainstream American.

I feel as though there's a lot invested in my background in being an outsider.

I've always - and not always happily - considered myself an outsider. Certainly at Fettes. And then the Scots are always outsiders in England. They are always putting you in your place in one way or another, and there is this pretty rigid class hierarchy.

Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression.

Everyone in life knows what it's like to be picked on and to feel like an outsider.

I think everyone can feel like an outsider. I know I have. I've always felt like one.

I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.

I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.

I'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I'm moved by that in real life.

Bahai Iranians are barred from holding government jobs, their children are excluded from the nation's university system, their marriages are not recognized and their cemeteries and holy places have been desecrated. It is government policy to incite hatred of Bahais in the official media.

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.

Jews have never, ever, ever wished to be separate, unless they were forced to be.

No corner of the world is free from group scorn.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.

Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place.

I was never part of the crowd.

I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd.