Heart Quote by Dania Ramirez

My father's immigrant story is a big part of who I am.

— Tom Suozzi

'The Immigrant Story,' which took me about twenty-five years to write, was a very simple story, but I couldn't think of how to tell…

— Grace Paley

My story is an immigrant story. My story is of people moving from one country thousands of miles away to another and forming new…

— Lenny Henry

Immigrant stories are good stories for everyone to know.

— Sofia Kenin

Our old stories happen to be your new stories. The stories that you're seeing as immigrant stories are your grandparents' stories, are your great-grandparents'…

— Tamlyn Tomita

One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed…

— Joseph O'Neill

I think in a larger sense, immigrant narrative is comprehensive and speaks to the core of human experience.

— Andrew Lam

The American story is a story of immigration. I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.

— Phil Gramm

In my essay for 'The Good Immigrant,' I write about how concerns about race and immigration crept up on me a bit because of…

— Himesh Patel

There's virtually nothing made up in 'The Immigrant.' So much of the film came from somewhere in my family's past. All the details are…

— James Gray

I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.

— Tao Lin

My parents' story is the story of many families immigrating to the United States today, and the story of so many who came before…

— Karine Jean-Pierre