A Quote by Khalid

I didn't feel like I had a home until I moved to El Paso. — © Khalid
I didn't feel like I had a home until I moved to El Paso.
I moved from New York to El Paso in 2015, just before my senior year. I was super nervous. My mom, she's in the Army, and she got stationed at Fort Bliss. We packed everything up and drove all the way to El Paso.
Even though I wasn't born or raised in El Paso, it'll always be a part of me until the day that I die.
El Paso is where I started. I don't feel like I'd be making the music I'm making now if I hadn't gone there.
My mind was so geared towards being a performing artist, singing all these classical pieces, but the sense of loneliness I got when I moved from New York to El Paso meant that writing turned into singing. I'd sing all these songs, and they'd make me feel better. Songs that crafted the way my life was going to go.
And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.
We all knew each other in the neighborhood. I loved living in El Paso. I had a wonderful childhood there.
I don't know that my colleagues in Congress really care about what happens here in El Paso and in Juarez. They care what happens in their home district.
I'm just a kid from El Paso, Texas.
In a museum in El Paso, Texas, there's a map that shows all the places the border between the U.S. and Mexico has been (because it shifted) - I find it very clarifying (not confusing) to be reminded that everything we feel like we've really pinned down is transient, arbitrary, and marks the site of a painful if not violent negotiation, one that may not have ended.
If you've ever driven across Texas, you know how different one area of the state can be from another. Take El Paso. It looks as much like Dallas as I look like Jack Nicklaus
[My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.
I spent some special years in my hometown of El Paso.
I've got to thank the city of El Paso for standing behind me.
We in El Paso and Juarez are literally one community. There's no separation; there's no DMZ; there's no buffer.
We’re on the moon,” Sadie murmured. “El Paso, Texas,” Bast corrected.
The thing about going back to El Paso, it's overwhelming sometimes. I look at the support that I get and the success that I've had, and I can't walk anywhere without being spotted. My hair might be the biggest crime in this situation.
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