belonging Quotes

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.

Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It's a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play.

In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can't wedge a pin between it.

If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.

There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.

I'm often in the company of adults, so it's nice to meet girls my age or younger.

I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.

I live half the year on Necker, a tiny island in the Caribbean, and it's always full of people in party mode. Everyone comes up to the big house, and we'll be dancing until the early hours to the island's band, the Front Line.

I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims.