Group Affiliation Quotes

No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.

Everybody else was quoting 2Pac, and I was running around with Green Day in my Walkman. Racially speaking, I wasn't cool or appropriate for any group.

I've seen a dude who had the Wu logo tatted on his face. I mean, his whole face was tatted, but the Wu was the biggest thing on his face. That is a statement, something that means a lot to us.

When someone is in our tribe, I think it's particularly easier for us to tell them apart, because we're used to their facial features.

We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.

I'm not really a strange person or anything, so if there's music I like, usually there's other people who like it too.

I need to feel part of something.

You can't get along in society without an identity.

An ideology can be defined as a group of beliefs that individuals borrow; most people borrow an ideology by identifying with a social group ... with a body of sacred documents and heroes.

I met some friends in the end of 10th, beginning of 11th, who were in the popular group so I finished off high school in that group and got to see both sides.

I was always kind of searching for the right social group in high school and never really felt like I belonged with any one specific clique.

The nice thing about working in surf films so long is becoming part of the surf tribe. Anywhere I go where there are surfers, I get welcomed pretty easily.

The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique.

I am a Yes fan, ultimately. I've been a member of the band, but I was always a fan of the band first.

I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.

I'm not with G-Unit for protection. I chose G-Unit because I felt like that's the place where the people would be more supportive of a person that is considered a rebel.

Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family- But not much in between unless a college.

Whenever Americans are free to select their own associates they almost always select associates of their own race.

The associations inside the group become more important than those outside.

Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.

I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I am realist.

The idea is, we're still a society where we recognize and see and even sometimes seek members of our own tribe, whatever that tribe is. It could be ethnic, religious, geographic, political.

It's important to find your tribe.

The key thing about us is that we all belong to multiple tribes. Even if we are predisposed into dividing the world into 'us' and 'them,' it's incredibly easy to manipulate us as to who is an 'us' and who is a 'them' at any given moment.

We all belong to a tribe. You might be a religious or a family person - that's your tribe.