Billy Bragg Quotes

Every human being has to feel a part of a tribe. It's programmed into us. And you have to feel that you're contributing to something.

You see people who are disenfranchised elsewhere coming to Comic Con and making lifetime friends. I love seeing the outcasts of society all bonding together.

The most basic human desire is to feel like you belong. Fitting in is important.

I'm Puerto Rican, but I represent everybody.

Belonging has always been a fundamental driver of humankind.

The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.

I just always wanted to be part of something where I felt like I belonged.

I need to feel part of something.

I don't know if I'm ever considered a part of the community I'm in.

We all want to belong to something, and we all want to feel as though we have a legacy, and when you see two characters that have had that taken away from them, I think that just feels very real and very human.

This is the only place that I don't feel out of place, because everyone here is out of place.

I'd been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I'd always been within arm's reach. All I had to do was ask, and I, too, would be easily brought back, surrounded and immersed, finding myself safe, somewhere in between.

I need to feel like I'm part of something. I need to feel part of the world when I go to sleep.

For those of you who are underrepresented in technology, know that you've always been here. Look in photos and see yourself reflecting back.

Without gay men, I am nothing.

Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts.

I'm always feeling like I don't belong, no matter where I am. So I'm just searching for a family nonstop, and sometimes I find it in the mosh pit, sometimes I find it when I'm doing some French TV show with the president's wife.

I'm a fully paid-up member of the human race.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

By being friends with all, we are not alone.

The notion of 'we' is very important. I think, for any family, any community to be able to say 'we' in this family, it means something. It's dangerous to society when somebody will place himself or herself on the outside of 'we.'

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

I've moved around so much my whole life, and I've gotten so used to being the Other in situations - the foreigner, the outsider. The first time I've ever felt like there was no separation between me and the other elements was in music.

We felt like we just got surrounded by this community of friends.