Quote by Isabel Wilkerson Download Open image ““At one point, ten thousand were arriving every month in Chicago alone. It”” — Isabel Wilkerson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“ahead of Chicago time, and tells a Chicago friend that it is twelve” — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
“As I look back on those days, most people in Chicago felt that way. Chicago was host to the world at that time and… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“I no longer live in Chicago. Not a day goes by when I do not wish I were there.” — Rich Cohen Copy Share Image
“If you think of doing something in New York City, you can be certain that at least two thousand other people have the same… — E.L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
“FORTY THOUSAND VISITORS descended upon Chicago in the middle of May 1860, drawn” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“More than twelve hundred boys arrived safely. It took them a year and a half.” — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
People always go, 'Damn, how you got all this happening at once?' I tell them it's the Chicago in me. — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
“But never, among all the cities I have wandered over the years, cities all over the earth, did I feel and smell and sense… — Brian Doyle Copy Share Image
“There were thousands of households throughout that city and there was something happening in all of them. There was some kind of story in… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“If you are one in a million in China, you’re one of 1,300 people.” — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
“That one over this is the one for the use of the white people,” Judge Amistead Jones said. “Not that I am a stickler… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“...they speak like melted butter and their children speak like footsteps on pavement...” — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
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… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“Many of the people who left the South never exactly sat their children down to tell them these things, tell them what happened and… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“Fifteen thousand men, women, and children gathered to watch eighteen-year-old Jesse Washington as he was burned alive in Waco, Texas, in May 1916. The… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me. — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
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… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know. But there were actually… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“I don’t see one white person in this block selling drugs. They got the nerve to be mad at the blue-eyed devil. You don’t… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“That the Negro American has survived at all is extraordinary —a lesser people might simply have died out, as indeed others have. — DANIEL… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“The reality was that Jim Crow filtered through the economy, north and south, and pressed down on poor and working-class people of all races.” — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
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… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
