Home Quote by Lulu Wang

I guess, like most foreigners, when you're away, you see your own culture being even more strange. But where I come from and my…

— Alicia Vikander

When you come from an immigrant home, you're in a whole different world until you leave your house. In my teenage years, I had…

— Jessie Reyez

It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.

— Flo Rida

When you have parents that come from a country that you weren't raised in, you feel this weird sense of familiarity, like you've returned…

— Roy Choi

When you come back to a country that you've left, you're in a very peculiar situation because, in a way, you don't belong to…

— Gabriel Byrne

Being an immigrant myself, but feeling very American, and also being the child of immigrants, I understand the feeling of wanting a home.

— Milana Vayntrub

Assimilation is really a psychological process where you come to identify with a new country as yours. The ease of overseas travel and information…

— Mark Krikorian

I guess it's interesting traveling, for me, because I never in my life until doing this felt a sense of being from anywhere particularly,…

— Will Farquarson

When you're a foreigner, at the beginning you are far away from the culture. Then, little by little, you start to interact with people,…

— Olivier Martinez

[Immigrating] didn't burn out my desire to travel, though that can happen. There's nothing like immigration to make you want to just stay put.…

— Junot Diaz

If you get a chance to go outside of the country, you start examining where you're from and some of the thought processes. Like…

— Bill Burr

“What makes coming home so jarring, compared to other returns from other exotic places—―isn't simply culture shock. It's human shock, seeing so many people…

— Laurence C. Smith