{"quotes":[{"text":"I want to see a flowering of Arab and Jewish cultures in a country without racism or anti-Semitism, without rich or poor or spat-upon: everyone beneath the vine and fig tree living in peace and unafraid. A homeland for each and every one of us between the mountains and the sea. A multilingual, multireligious, many-colored and -peopled land where the orange tree blooms for all. I will not surrender this vision for any lesser compromise.","author":"Aurora Levins Morales","tags":["arab","culture","homeland","israel","jewish","multicultural","multilingual","multireligious","palestine"],"id":618,"author_id":"Aurora+Levins+Morales"},{"text":"The Tejo runs down from SpainAnd the Tejo goes into the sea in Portugal.Everybody knows that.But not many people know the river of my villageAnd where it comes fromAnd where it’s going.And so, because it belongs to less people,The river of my village is freer and greater.","author":"Alberto Caeiro","tags":["belonging","home","homeland","love","paganism","pantheism","simplicity","tranquility"],"id":5257,"author_id":"Alberto+Caeiro"},{"text":"While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.","author":"Raquel Cepeda","tags":["america","foreign","freedom","freedom-of-choice","freedom-of-thought","home","homeland","identity","labels","new-york-city","race","racial-constructs","racism","self-awareness","united-states"],"id":30727,"author_id":"Raquel+Cepeda"},{"text":"The river of my village doesn’t make you think about anything.When you’re at its bank you’re only at its bank.","author":"Alberto Caeiro","tags":["belonging","home","homeland","natural","nature","paganism","pantheism","simplicity"],"id":32509,"author_id":"Alberto+Caeiro"},{"text":"Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.","author":"Jeanette Winterson","tags":["globalisation","home","homeland"],"id":37930,"author_id":"Jeanette+Winterson"},{"text":"Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland.","author":"Jacqueline Carey","tags":["battle","homeland","poets","sing","war"],"id":94294,"author_id":"Jacqueline+Carey"},{"text":"My homeland,' says the guest, 'no longer exists. My homeland was Poland, Vienna, this house, the barracks in the city, Galicia, and Chopin. What’s left? Whatever mysterious substance held it all together no longer works. Everything’s come apart. My homeland was a feeling, and that feeling was mortally wounded. When that happens, the only thing to do is go away.","author":"Sándor Márai","tags":["austria-hungary","feelings","homeland","patriotism"],"id":119009,"author_id":"S%C3%A1ndor+M%C3%A1rai"},{"text":"What amazes me most is that we, as a people, have shared our collective story of being thrown out of our homeland, Palestine, with each other and with many others- actually we have bored the world with this collective story- but somehow the individual Palestinian shies away, or perhaps is too afraid, to share the very personal story of being thrown out of her or his home, living room, or bedroom. These personal stories are seldom told, not even to our own children, perhaps not even to ourselves. I guess the wound remains open.","author":"Suad Amiry","tags":["homeland","loss","palestine","palestinians","tragedy"],"id":154357,"author_id":"Suad+Amiry"},{"text":"He’d lived in the desert all his life, and he loved it. He was its child. It was his home.","author":"Tony Taylor","tags":["child-of-nature","desert","home","homeland","love"],"id":160919,"author_id":"Tony+Taylor"},{"text":"I wonder what it felt to move to a country where you didn't grow up. I had thought about that often since my sister got married. Do you become a character in a story native to that land, or do you, somewhere in your heart, want to return to your homeland.","author":"Banana Yoshimoto","tags":["country","homeland","nostalgia"],"id":171660,"author_id":"Banana+Yoshimoto"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}