Rollo May Quotes

Culture in general is important, and people's identify is tied up in it. It's how we connect with others.

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.

I understand people want to hold on to their roots.

We should not ignore or isolate our roots, no matter where we stay.

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

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.

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.

Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.

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

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.

Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity.

We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about.

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

Some of my songs are about the feeling you belong somewhere else. But there's also something grounding about coming from a small town.

It feels great to be home, great to be back as a part of the community.

As someone who is displaced - I left London almost fifteen years ago to make Connecticut my home - I am drawn to stories about people who don't belong, whether physically or emotionally, and who find their families of choice in their friends.

Home wasn't so much a house as people, family.

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 love living around black people. Home is home. We suffer under racism and the physical deprivations that come with that, but beneath that, we form cultures and traditions that are beautiful.

Something has been lost, a special feeling of patriotism, of belonging, is vanishing.