Isabel Wilkerson Quotes

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• Well, I'm a daughter of the great migration as, really, the majority of African Americans that you meet in the north and west are products…
• It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.
• America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is…
• Miles Davis, his parents migrated from Arkansas to Illinois, where he had the luxury of being able to practice for hours upon hours. He never…
• People leave when life becomes untenable where they are.
• Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone in some state in the…
• I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee Airman who was…
• It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white Bibles to swear…
• Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't want to talk…
• That's one of the biggest losses, I think, to African American families, is that people, once they left, they turned away from the South. They…
• There are certain things that we take for granted that simply would not have existed without the great migration. Motown, for example, would not have…
• What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color…

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