Sally Field Quotes

When we talk about communities, we seldom discuss the margins. But for every person nestled comfortably in the bosom of a community, there is someone else on the outskirts, feeling ambivalent. Ambiguous. Excluded. Unwilling or unable to come more fully into the fold.

I don't belong to the straights now - they didn't get me back.

I don't consider myself a pariah.

I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my mother took me, the kids there all knew each other, and somehow I was even more of an outcast.

I was the weirdest kid in this small town in Washington. I was the only person who was from somewhere else, so I think they just didn't understand it... They said I was a weirdo or that I didn't belong there. That was the hardest one when people said I didn't belong there.

I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.

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

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 think a lot of what I've done is about people feeling as if they are part of the world but also not part of it at the same time. I don't know whether that's from being a gay kid, but I definitely think that resonates with me.

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

Even at church, people would not shake my hand.

As a gay man in Hollywood, I certainly understand what it means to be in it but not of it, to be marginalized at times and kept out of certain clubs.

I've always had this feeling wherever I go. Of not feeling fully part of things, not fully accepted, not fully inside of something.

I never really fit in anywhere.

I was always an outcast, even in my family.

Everyone can relate to being bullied. Everyone can relate to wanting to fit in and being part of a clique.

I will carry with me always the deep sense of what it feels like to be an outsider and how tough it was, how hard it was to adapt to this country.

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

I felt like I was an outsider growing up in the black church, as a gay man, in a poor community.

I'm definitely gonna be an outcast.

I was ostracized by my community.

Nobody wants to be somewhere that doesn't want them.

Pick any scientific field, and you'll find that those snubbed by their communities, left feeling alone and despised, were often those on the forefront.

Paradoxically, by insisting on engaging with Muslims as a separate group, the authorities make many of them feel even more excluded.