Lisa Brennan-Jobs Quotes

I have a big thing about needing to know that I belong - in my group of friends, in my family, in my industry.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I think the reason why people loved 'Jem' in the '80s was because it kind of gave them this story of a place to fit in. It's about finding your place.

We help kids and fans of all ages find their social scenes. Find their place. Find their demeanor.

Japan took me in as one of their own and treated me like one of their own.

I would love to be part of a community.

Once I was embraced by gay culture, I finally started to feel I was fitting in. I was understood by those people in a way I had never predicted or courted.

I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long.

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.

When I was a kid... I needed to belong.

By being friends with all, we are not alone.

I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history.

As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.

I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me 'Em' and shout across the bar, 'Em, what are you drinking?' after the show.

The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging.

When I was a kid, monsters made me feel that I could fit somewhere, even if it was... an imaginary place where the grotesque and the abnormal were celebrated and accepted.

Instead of focusing on, 'Oh, there's a black lady who plays videogames,' focus on that there's another person out there who loves the same stuff that you do.

Belonging has always been a fundamental driver of humankind.

I grew up here in New York City and New Jersey, performing on Broadway shows, surrounded by some of my closest friends from the LGBT community. My father, a minister from New Jersey, shaped my view that love is love, that we are all equal.

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.

The best way I could describe it at Notre Dame was that I was accepted as a member of the family.