Zawe Ashton Quotes

Even with all of its changing, Brooklyn's architecture still feels like home, the language feels like home. It's changing so quickly that it's surprising. It's surprising still, when someone looks kind of askance to see me walking towards them.

I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.

I love Star City - it is my home.

I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what we've gone through in life, being given an opportunity to understand who I am; my identity, my culture, and my roots.

I'm a native of L.A. I've seen the city change and develop over time, and I still believe there's no place like home.

My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.

I am more of a New Yorker than ever and just actually, sometimes I fantasize about living somewhere else, where it's maybe not quite so crowded or stressful, blah, blah, blah and after September 11th, I guess I could just not imagine living anywhere else.

I love my community. I love always being able to come back and have a home.

I have been living in Montgomery so long that I call it home.

More than anything, I'm proud to say I'm from Saginaw.

I didn't feel like I had a home until I moved to El Paso.

I like Atlanta a lot but no place beats my house. I just like the Black success in Atlanta. I loved being surrounded by that.

Of all the places I've ever been, Austin is the only place that has felt like home. I fit in here.

My family, before the divorce, moved several times, and after that we moved a whole bunch more times, and so I don't have an anchor to a single place. Probably as a result of that, I'm a little more attenuated to when people do feel close identification to place, whether they say it out aloud or not. I think that there's a sort of local patriotism that is deeper than national patriotism.

London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.

I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it.

While I enjoy spending time in L.A., Britain is my home.

South Central is just who I am.

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.

Both my mother's family and my father's family go back almost a hundred years in the district. I was born in the district, raised in the district, raised my family in the district. And so that's the way I see myself.

I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both. It seems like I'm always leaving my home. That's part of the formula. I love the Dominican Republic. I go back all the time. I love New Jersey. Go back all the time.

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

England will be home for me. It always has been and always will be.