As an immigrant, there's a little part of you that always says, "Well, I'm not a hundred percent American." America is some… — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
Growing up in America, I experienced two puberties. The first opened me up to the possibilities of adulthood. The second reinforced that… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
I think one thing that has helped me to be an entrepreneur is being an immigrant and coming to the United States.… — Anousheh Ansari Copy Share Image
I saw an opportunity to use a restaurant to identify a lot of my issues and concerns with being an immigrant in… — Eddie Huang Copy Share Image
I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx,… — Dan Rosensweig Copy Share Image
If cheap immigrant labor is made unavailable, employers can hire Americans at a higher wage, or replace low-wage immigrant workers with technology… — Jan C. Ting Copy Share Image
I'm an immigrant, a legal immigrant to the United States. I only became a citizen five years ago. Every day, for seven… — Sebastian Gorka Copy Share Image
“These are immigrant times And the lines are long, The signs for jobs few, The songs sadder, the air meaner. Everyone is… — Alberto Ríos Copy Share Image
If you are Black or Brown, or a liberal or immigrant or Democrat, or a woman unwilling to quietly submit, then Ailes… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
“Angie was a border crosser, a wetback, a worker in the immigrant sweatshop they call this city. On days like this I… — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
People sort of misinterpret the immigration story. I often hear people say that, well, you know, they emigrate to another country for… — Angelos Postecoglou Copy Share Image
People are an asset, not a liability. The United States is the most immigrant-friendly nation in the world and the richest country… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
People often think of America as a classless society, but, of course, that isn't true. Within immigrant communities, there's an enormous distinction… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
...despite all this, it is still hard to admit that there is no one more English than the Indian, no one more… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
'Sesame Street' early on and then 'Little House on the Prairie' was a big deal in our house. I always identified with… — John Cho Copy Share Image
In our country, being from immigrant parents, growing up black in the South, coming out at 16 years old, being a teen… — Karamo Brown Copy Share Image
I want people to understand my journey and to be inspired by that. You can be an immigrant, and if you work… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
DACA led to a mass influx of illegal immigrant children crossing the Mexican border into the U.S. who came believing they would… — Mark Meadows Copy Share Image
We're getting a very different kind of immigrant now, and it began as a specific plan to bring in lots of more… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Growing up as the youngest daughter to immigrant parents, it was instilled in me from an early age to not be wasteful… — Konnie Huq Copy Share Image
Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I came from a traditional immigrant family where education meant there were only a few valid paths: doctor or lawyer - and… — Suheir Hammad Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is not an immigrant basher. His mother was a legal immigrant. His wife is a legal immigrant. He employs legal… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Coming from an immigrant background, where a lot of parents don't want their kids to be comedians, success was just showing my… — Maz Jobrani Copy Share Image
Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I'm the first person in my family to go to college, and I'm an immigrant. My aspirations coming out of college weren't… — Geisha Williams Copy Share Image
I [read] "The Book of Unknown Americans," which is by a friend of mine, Cristina Henriquez, and is about two Latino, immigrant… — Laila Lalami 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
Trump's pronounced anti-immigrant stance is reminiscent of both Le Pen in France and Orban in Hungary, although he is far from alone… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
There are so many immigrant-led success stories in the United States, and the fact that it's gotten so much harder for educated… — Safra A. Catz Copy Share Image
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