Immigration Quote by Nayyirah Waheed

“XXII Taming the Oceans * Oceans crash incessantly on ragged coasts pass invisibly through earth and air And out again through the tiny rivers…

— Michael Bee

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

— Angelika Regossi

“The way I see it, my ancestors put a lot of effort into getting out of the goddamn ocean and I don’t think I…

— Terry Pratchett

“All of us are migrants to this world for a few days!”

— Kandathil Sebastian

“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

“...my body has become another country and I feel like an unemployed illegal alien how will I survive where I do not belong I…

— Patrick Califia-Rice

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

— Nikesh Shukla

“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

“Racism. . . . fuelled by bitter assertions that no immigrant ever has the least respect for the environment in his adopted country because…

— James Hamilton-Paterson

“Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself. You end up just sailing…

— Michael Cunningham

“Maybe it’s the instinct of every immigrant, born of necessity or of longing: Someplace else will be better than here. And the condition: if…

— Cristina Henriquez

“Being an immigrant is not for sissies.”

— Helen Russell