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Writing about “Zami” by Audre Lorde, bell hooks says: “Encouraging readers to see dreams and fantasies as part of the material we use to invent the self, Lorde invited us to challenge notions of absolute truth. Her insistence that there is no absolute truth when it comes to how we remember the past, that there is fact and interpretation of fact, ha
... See morebelonging is made of the affective or material ties and obligations that link the individual to others.
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
The word ‘belonging’ holds together the two fundamental aspects of life: being and longing, the Longing of our being and the Being of our longing. Belonging is deep; only in a superficial sense does it refer to our external attachment to people, places and things.
John O'Donohue • Eternal Echoes: Exploring Our Hunger To Belong
It’s a feeling of home, of “I can exhale here and be fully myself with no judgment or insecurity.” Belonging is about shared values and responsibility, and the desire to participate in making your community better. It’s about taking pride, showing up, and offering your unique gifts to others. You can’t belong if you only take.
Radha Agrawal • Belong: Find Your People, Create Community, and Live a More Connected Life
immaterial returns (diasporic consciousness)
important - consider what we are offering back to our ancestors, our elders, the communities we are returning to
Community offers the promise of belonging and calls for us to acknowledge our interdependence. To belong is to act as an investor, owner, and creator of this place. To be welcome, even if we are strangers. As if we came to the right place and are affirmed for that choice.
Peter Block • Community: The Structure of Belonging
language for what I believe it is: a medium that is formed as it is used, a structure that is built by feedback effects, a road that is paved at the same time as we walk it.
David Shariatmadari • Don't Believe a Word
the acquisition of language has waylaid, or even kidnapped, our wanting (what, we may wonder, is the transformation involved in eventually putting words to wants?).
Adam Phillips • On Giving Up
Language can contain an entire world, revealing its speakers’ history, values, or pathologies. It can also be obfuscating, diversionary, slippery. Chattiness, with its personality-driven appeals to familiarity, can conceal or elide false promises, banality, emptiness, controversy, and the context of its own existence
Anna Wiener • The Age of Chat
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein (April 26, 1889–April 29, 1951) an Austrian-born philosopher who spent most of his life in England, including teaching at Cambridge.