Mohsin Hamid Quotes

If I feel any marginalisation, it's because the things that concern me aren't so important to other people.

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

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.

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

I think everyone can feel like an outsider. I know I have. I've always felt like one.

I literally felt like a freak, which is another aspect of the role of Sally that I relate to: total outsider.

I don't know how to not be outside since I was a little kid.

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.

I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.

I've always felt outside of things; I've always felt different.

I always felt an outsider.

I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.

Just because we don't recognise someone from an area of our own lives, somehow it has become easy to simply ignore them and walk away.

Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants.

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

The more rarefied a life you live, the easier it is to think that those who don't share it could be demonised. To find the common humanity becomes more of a struggle the more you surround yourself with nice things.

I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to.

I was a complete outsider in high school.

I was never part of the crowd.

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

I was always the new kid, and I got to know the language and the politics of being on the outside, looking in. Never being in the clique - always being a student of the clique, a subversive, and I could look around and identify the other guys who were excluded.