Anthony Braxton Quotes

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've always craved to belong to somewhere, but I never have and never will.

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 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.

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

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 don't know if I'm ever considered a part of the community I'm in.

I was an immigrant when I came, and one of my biggest things was I really wanted to fit in. I didn't want to be, 'Oh, look at that guy;' I wanted to be part of the crowd. Which is a weird thing, because the more successful I got, the more out of the crowd I became.

I'm one of these guys who always feel like the outsider, you know? I'm always longing to be part of something, you know?

Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

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

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

I've never really fit in anywhere.

I always prided myself on being apart from the ruling class. I think it's always important, not just in Washington but in life, to be able to able to balance your sense of belonging with what it's like to be someone who doesn't belong.

Most of us don't want to be outsiders.

I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.

I belong nowhere and to no one.

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

I don't feel comfortable as an insider.

Where do I fit in? That's something I think about as an actor, especially as an actor from a minority community.

If you never, or rarely, see your experience depicted in art or pop culture then you can begin to feel isolated or separate; Othered. So, representation is super important.

I don't associate myself with anything. I don't associate myself with where I'm from or where I am.

I never felt welcome in the heteronormative groups.