Famous quotes containing the word belong:
“He seemed to be of no particular race, or, in certain lights, to belong to some race that nobody else belonged to.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
“I dont give a hoot in a hollow if theres oranges and grapes a-crowdin us out of bed, I aint goin to California! This is my country and I belong here. This is my dirt. Its no good, but its mine.”
—Nunnally Johnson (18971977)
“But I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal.... No, I do not weep at the worldI am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (19071960)