I was an immigrant. I came here at 12. We were caught behind the Iron Curtain until I was 10. — Lidia Bastianich Copy Share Image
I came here as an immigrant. We were poor. We went to flea markets to sell gifts to make ends meet. Just… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
Increasingly I feel like a Jew, an immigrant, a Russian - anything but a normal, mainstream American. — Max Boot Copy Share Image
As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Depriving immigrant families of health care, healthy food, insurance, and antipoverty supports does not just hurt them. In the long term, it… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
The DREAM Act was intended to benefit illegal immigrants who were brought here as children, the most sympathetic subset among our large… — Jan C. Ting Copy Share Image
My parents come from that immigrant culture that places a lot of emphasis on doing well scholastically. Being a comedian or an… — Maz Jobrani Copy Share Image
Libraries are not just places where people go read a book, but places where an immigrant goes to take English lessons and… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I came in as a legal immigrant. My dad came first. We had to wait about a year. — Shiva Ayyadurai Copy Share Image
I was incredibly shy and insecure as a child. I was bullied. I was dyslexic. I had an immigrant single parent. I… — Kaya Scodelario Copy Share Image
Definitely that was a big part of my childhood: wanting to fit. As an immigrant, you talk funny, you look funny, you… — Genndy Tartakovsky Copy Share Image
My mother is an immigrant from China, and she filled my head with stories about ghosts and fighting monks in China, so… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I was the one that in a very overconfident immigrant way thought I knew exactly how to raise my kids. My husband… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
I get to say I was alive when the first Palestinian woman went to Congress. I was alive when the first Somali… — Linda Sarsour Copy Share Image
I'm a brown-skinned Indian immigrant, low-caste untouchable - I don't know how many labels you want to put on me - who's… — Shiva Ayyadurai Copy Share Image
Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing… — Rose Schneiderman Copy Share Image
I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally an American writer according to the whims and… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
We need to build bridges between the LGBT community and the larger immigrant community. In the end, the bigger the tent we… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
'First Gen' is kind of the ode to my parents and to really all immigrant children who come here with kind of… — Yvonne Orji Copy Share Image
