African american Quote by Opal Tometi

To fully understand the black immigrant experience in the U.S., we must understand it not in contrast to the African-American experience, but central to…

— Opal Tometi

The immigrant experience of all of us is what makes us Americans, because we value in our DNA liberty and opportunity above all else.

— Ted Cruz

As a young black immigrant at an inner-city school, I saw how poverty of ambition left many from disadvantaged backgrounds on the scrap-heap.

— Kemi Badenoch

I'm a female black immigrant lawyer, who raised her kids in and around Toronto.

— Leslyn Lewis

Fortunately, the leadership of black immigrant communities has always been present in all black liberation movements from leaders like Marcus Garvey to Shirley Chisholm…

— Opal Tometi

The immigrant experience in 'Ilustrado' was only a small part of what I intended to be a broader look at the Filipino experience, even…

— Miguel Syjuco

The immigrant experience is rarely depicted in mainstream media in a positive light, and for that very reason, 'Kim's Convenience' has a very special…

— Simu Liu

I can understand the value of the immigrant experience and that we have become the nation that we are because people like my grandmother…

— Julian Castro

In the United States, the immigrant experience occupies a very central place in American mythology. And sometimes, that place wavers between acceptance and rejection.

— Nguyen Viet Thang

I am the executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, which is the country's only national immigrant rights organization for black immigrants…

— Opal Tometi

The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission.

— B. Joseph Pine II

Learning is experience understood in tranquility.

— Charles Handy