Belong Quote by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

I was an immigrant. I came here at 12. We were caught behind the Iron Curtain until I was 10.

— Lidia Bastianich

When I reached America, there was so much space and colour. The possibilities seemed endless. At least that's how I felt at 18. But…

— Martina Navratilova

I would say I was an all-American teenager.

— Charlie Murphy

I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna…

— Maurice Sendak

I was an incredibly lonely, very alienated teenager.

— Alain de Botton

When I was old enough, I was 21 years of age, I decided to come to America. I did it illegally, so I jumped…

— Cesar Millan

I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with…

— Patrick Dempsey

Definitely that was a big part of my childhood: wanting to fit. As an immigrant, you talk funny, you look funny, you smell funny.…

— Genndy Tartakovsky

I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these…

— Bernard Baruch

My family immigrated to the States in 1981, when I was 14.

— Masha Gessen

There was a lot of pressure on me when I was 18, 19 to move to America. I went out for a couple of…

— Martin Compston

I saw my parents come over. They were immigrants, they had no money. My dad wore the same pair of shoes, I had some…

— Amy Chua