Luol Deng Quotes

I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile.

I was born in Peru, and we moved to Scotland when I was 15, but I've not lived here for a long time. But I would always say that I am Scottish, and Scotland is as close to a home as I have.

It's possible that Israel will be my second home, but it won't be my only home.

I'm fully English, but Portugal is my home.

It's strange; when I was younger and people would ask, 'Where are you from?', I'd say, 'West Africa', which was odd because I'm obviously not African, but it was my home.

I want to clear this once and for all. I was born in Hong Kong. I grew up in Japan and China. London is not home for me. I was there only for three years before I moved to India, but that's probably why I am connected with it. London is definitely not the place I consider my home. It's India that I consider home.

I was born in England, but India is the only place I feel at home.

My father is from Newark in Nottinghamshire and my mother is from the very north of Ireland. They've ended up in Scotland, where my father - well, both of them - will always be seen as having come from somewhere else.

I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.

When I come home, I say I'm coming home to Dublin. When I'm in Dublin, I say I'm going home to New York. I'm sort of a man of two countries.

I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.

I don't have a place anywhere but Australia; I just don't spend much time there.

Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging.

I'm very British at heart. When I come to England, I say I'm coming home, and then it's funny: when I leave England to go back to L.A., I also say I'm going back home.

They've lived here now for more than half of their lives, and they raised a family here and now have grandchildren here... It has become their home, but at the same time, for my parents, I don't think either of them will ever consciously think, 'I am an American.'

Being an immigrant myself, but feeling very American, and also being the child of immigrants, I understand the feeling of wanting a home.

Today, I'm Brazilian, born in Rio de Janeiro, but my second home is Paris. Nobody can change that.

I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home - I've been there 14 years now.

I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

Writers, especially those of us with roots in other countries, are rarely left to ourselves. We are asked to declare our allegiances, or they are determined for us.

I am British. I love Britain for all its faults and all its virtues. My husband is American and I am largely based in Los Angeles, but whenever someone asks me where home is, I automatically say 'London.'

I was born in India - but never really lived there.

In general, I have felt more at home in the U.S. than I ever felt in England.

I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.