In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.
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I was shocked when I moved to Sydney how very few indigenous people I came across. And so when I go to places like Maroubra or Redfern or Waterloo or Erskineville, I feel more at home because of the people I'm around - anywhere I can see a face that reflects someone that looks like my family, I feel much more at home.
I have always felt more at home in a culture that has nothing to do with the one I was born and brought up in.
I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's.
I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.
I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
Home is where your family is. Wherever you are, it's about the people you're surrounded by, not necessarily where you lay your head.
It gets harder and harder to make sure your public understands you're a sensitive human being, but I am sensitive. I don't like to be hurt.
Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.
Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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