Angus Deaton Quotes

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

The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the 'upper dog'.

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.

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

There is an element in some of my work that has to do with being an outsider, feeling like not part of the dominant culture.

I was always made aware of inequality in society, that there was a class system. In Somalia, we have clan structures. My mother's family is ethnically not Somali, and so we spoke often about what it meant to be 'other' in that way.

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

I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in.

I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.

I do feel like I'm not entirely an insider.

With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

I don't belong much anywhere.

That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on the fact that we were creatures of the margin and of alienation.

I don't really have any people in my life who aren't gypsies.

You go through your life feeling like an outsider, and you respond to society in a different way when you feel like an outsider.

I tried so many times to fit in but I could never ever fit in. I was always like, an outcast.

I'm definitely gonna be an outcast.

I was ostracized by my community.

I didn't get targeted in high school for being a Muslim - it wasn't that - but I always felt like an outsider in that sense.

I don't feel like I've ever been in mainstream society.

When one English person speaks, another one immediately classifies him. No class system in the world is so audible, which is also why it is so pernicious and enduring.

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.

The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.

Being asked, "Where are you REALLY from?" It makes one feel OTHERED.

They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.