American Quote by Hank Johnson

When I think of my work, I'm aware that I'm American and African at all points and times. And without a doubt, my experience…

— Dinaw Mengestu

“Immigrant parents, when they first move to North America, push towards whiteness, towards assimilation, to survive and thrive. Naturally, their children do too for…

— Scaachi Koul

I was born in America but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. Many people…

— Christopher Walken

I went to the States with that amount of prejudice which seems the birthright of every English person, but I found that, under the…

— Isabella Bird

“many of us, as immigrants—or our parents or our grandparents—had chosen to leave our pasts behind just as the Goldens were now choosing, encouraging…

— Salman Rushdie

All of us are displaced. Few people live where their great-grandparents lived or speak the language their great-grandparents spoke.

— Hephzibah Menuhin

Most of our life is miscommunication, and when you add a language barrier to it, it just becomes total mayhem and confusion... It just…

— Julie Delpy

Our parents taught us to love God, love our family and love our country. Their own grandparents were immigrants. Their first language may not…

— Martin O'Malley

I went to a predominantly African-American school. I didn't even understand our immigration system. I knew my parents immigrated here.

— Rashida Tlaib

Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.

— Margaret Mead

My parents did not come to the U.S. with much; they had a lot of hardship.

— Nathan Chen

Although both my grandfathers encountered ethnic prejudice, they viewed this as an aberration-a failure of some Americans to live up to the nation's ideals.…

— Robert P. George