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Even though I couldn't speak English, there were many times that my black-American parents could read my mind and I could read theirs.

— Kola Boof

I was with a Russian family, and I couldn't believe that the grandparents in Russia, first of all I was shocked and delighted to…

— Philip Rosenthal

My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking…

— Daniel Nathans

My parents immigrated to the United States with $10 in their pocket and a belief that the America they had heard about really did…

— Mia Love

Maybe boutique media, maybe people who are reading papers and talking to academics and whatnot, maybe they understand, because they're high-information. But a lot…

— Edward Snowden

In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My mother emigrated from Russia as a young child. She couldn't speak English and had no education. Her father died at age 32, leaving…

— Dianne Feinstein

“About immigrants from Russia: Soviet consciousness overlapped with the new American spirits has formed a specific and divisive culture. This culture is full of…

— Leo Pevsner

Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing…

— Hank Johnson

My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.

— Martin Lewis Perl

My parents were attached to Russian culture by a thousand ineradicable ties. But they did not cut me off from American society, nor could…

— Keith Gessen

If you had told me twenty years ago that I would write a novel set in Russia, much less two, I simply wouldn't have…

— Debra Dean