Malcolm X Quotes

There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.

New York has given me a lot, but I still don't consider it home.

When people ask me where my roots are, I look down at my feet, and I see the roots of my soul grasping the earth. They are here... in the Southwest... I still live in New Mexico.

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself.

It's strange; when I was younger and people would ask, 'Where are you from?', I'd say, 'West Africa', which was odd because I'm obviously not African, but it was my home.

I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.

I am at home in Dublin, more than in any other city.

And so much of my life has been about returning home and longing for home, wanting my children to know about my roots. And I thought I can't be the only one to feel this way so I thought it would be an interesting topic to explore.

Israel is the country of my birth. When I come here, I feel I'm coming home.

It's possible that Israel will be my second home, but it won't be my only home.

Iowa is always home for me.

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 really feel that Hong Kong is my home, and Hong Kong is my identity as an actor.

I'm very proud of where I'm from.

Let's treasure our roots, even when we're far away.

Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?

Having lived in Utah all of my life, I can tell that in many ways I know of no place more lonely, no place more unfamiliar. When I talk about how it is both a blessing and a burden to have those kinds of roots, it can be terribly isolating, because when you are so familiar, you know the shadow.

An adventurer can always return home; an exile cannot. So I decided that my home would be culture.

I've always believed that what can make a domestic setting truly home is the infusion of a cultural dimension.

Nobody's American," said Wednesday. "Not originally. That's my point.

I’m learning that to be at home everywhere, I have to be sure to include the place I actually live.

Everyone said to me growing up, "You're like an American. You have to go to America. That's your spiritual home."