"It occurred to me that no matter where……" — Isabel Wilkerson
"It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me."
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12 Quotes by Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson has 12 quotes on this site.
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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…
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America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait...…
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Miles Davis, his parents migrated from Arkansas to Illinois, where he had the luxury of being able to practice for…
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People leave when life becomes untenable where they are.
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Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone…
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I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was…
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It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black…
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Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left…
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That's one of the biggest losses, I think, to African American families, is that people, once they left, they turned…
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There are certain things that we take for granted that simply would not have existed without the great migration. Motown,…
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What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living…
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Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.
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War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
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When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people…
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School boards are, for the most part ,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping…
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British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.
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I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing…
— Eric Clapton
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History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their…
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The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe.…
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For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection,…
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I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because…
— Gillian Anderson
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In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies…
— Louise Erdrich
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Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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