Based Quote by Mavis Gallant

“Immigration inevitably involves error and revision. What I imagined it would be, it's not. For better or worse, some mistake is unavoidable.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“Immigration teaches you to bend. Courage is remembering who you are.”

— Angelika Regossi

“When an immigrant speaks of feeling uncomfortable just know, you are in the presence of man who knows what the sting of assimilation is.”

— Hannah V. Sawyerr

“Every immigrant is the person he might have been and the person he is, and his homeland is at once the place it would…

— Jade Chang

“you broke the ocean in half to be here. only to meet nothing that wants you. – immigrant”

— Nayyirah Waheed

“Verlange. The process feels like crossing a border on a one-way ticket, from a state of innocence, to one of irreconcilable knowledge. You are…

— Karina Szczurek

“Borders...exist by our own choosing. Whether you accept their jurisdiction is entirely up to you”

— Oliver Broudy

“To be an immigrant, good or bad, is about straddling two homes, whilst knowing you don't really belong to either.”

— Nikesh Shukla

“European emigrants and their descendants are all over the place, which requires explanation.”

— Alfred W. Crosby

“Displacement results in a tenuous relationship with the past, with the self that used to exist and operate in a different place, where the…

— Aleksandar Hemon

that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most…

— Gene Tierney

“Being an immigrant is not for sissies.”

— Helen Russell