Quote by Oscar Wilde

“How lucky was she to have been born in a country in which others were desperate to live?”

— Cassie Hayes

“That I am a foreigner is not my fault. I would rather have been born here.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“She was a poor person, I was her poor child, and no one asks poor people if they want war.”

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“Nothing changed the fact that she was a lost, skinny child in another foreign place, with more foreign people. Alone.”

— Markus Zusak

“She came from the most worthless of classes - the rich, with a smattering of culture.”

— Virginia Woolf

“It had to do with the way she lived, in the country of her own skin. A country that issued no visas and seemed…

— Arundhati Roy

“Poor is what people become, not what they are born to be.”

— Saji Ijiyemi

“She did not care what some pampered citizens thought of her. She knew her worth.”

— Lucy Morris

“If people who were actually born had to prove they were worthy enough to live in America, this would be a much less populated…

— Nicola Yoon

“She had noticed that there was a tendency on the part of some Americans to believe that everybody, deep inside, wanted to live in…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“It continues to impress me how fluently Americans, even immigrants like her, speak of their achievements.”

— Olivia Sudjic

“...she cried because prejudice outlives passion and because she was sentimentally patriotic.”

— Irene Nemirovsky