Family Quote by Lenny Henry

It's a universal story, it's an immigrant story, and it's a love story. In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're…

— Gloria Estefan

People sort of misinterpret the immigration story. I often hear people say that, well, you know, they emigrate to another country for a better…

— Angelos Postecoglou

'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

I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or racial reasons, or gender reasons, or one of…

— Jacques Pepin

I feel I have a responsibility to carry out the immigrant story, since it's one that I hold very dear to my heart, since…

— Dania Ramirez

When you look at what's written under the Statue of Liberty, it's the immigrant story. It's about 'bring me your tired, your poor, your…

— Daniel Dae Kim

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

— Tom Suozzi

There's a story behind every old ballad or work song or nonsense song that I ever knew. Sometimes it's a fascinating story. A story…

— Pete Seeger

“Don't be a supporting character in someone else's story, Don't be the main character of your own story, But if you could, you should,…

— Ritu Negi

“Sarah Hinckley expresses the cry of her media-influenced generation: We have every little inconsequential thing, Nintendo 64s and homepages and cell phones, but not…

— Rick Richardson

For me, a story's a story if people want to hear it; it's very much based on oral storytelling. And for me, a story…

— Sandra Cisneros

“Well, a love story, that's no story at all. People don't want a happy ending. They want conflict. They want the heroine to fall…

— Jodi Picoult

Haley's life thus far has been an incredible American story: an immigrant family lands in rural South Carolina and produces a charismatic state leader…

— Scott Bessent

That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what often makes…

— Andrew Lam

America's story is largely an immigrant story. That hasn't changed since the Pilgrims ate their first turkey some four hundred years ago, and they…

— Andrew Lam