Rakim Quotes

Where you're from only matters in relation to where you are.

For me, New York is home because that's where I'm from.

If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.

I was born in Brooklyn, but I never lived there.

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.

Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself.

I wrote the script to 'Lady Bird,' and it really came out of a desire to make a project about home - like, what the meaning of home is, and place. I knew Sacramento very well, obviously, growing up there, and I felt like the right way to tell a story of a place was through a person who's about to leave it.

I am from Shivamogga.

I honestly just live in Trippie Redd's world. I don't live in America... I ain't finna live anywhere else but America.

When people ask me where I'm from I say I'm from Oklahoma.

Though I had been born in Maryland, Montana was where I truly belonged.

No matter where I've been or where I go, a piece of Missouri is always with me because this is where I'm from and where I grew up.

It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.

I go by 'Avi' because it's easier, but Avriel is my full name, and the Sequoias, that represents my home. So it's the truest version of me, it's where I came from.

I'm very proud of where I'm from.

I don't live in London. I live in the place that I sing about.

L.A.'s been my home.

I was born in L.A.

I was born at Rotten Row in Glasgow and brought up in Loch Lomond near a small place called Gartocharn. And it's a bit like anyone: where you're brought up, you have an irresistible attraction to that place; it defines who you are.

Seattle is my home.

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

Every time I go to Veracruz, I feel like, OK, I am back. When my feet go to the ground on the earth, I think, 'This is me, this is home, these are my roots, and now I can go and travel again to wherever you want me to go.'

You can always go back to the place where you were comfortable, the place where you're from.

It doesn't matter where it is in the world or who I'm making the movie with; that's the closest thing that I've got to a sense of placement.

Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?