Absurd Quote by Sasa Stanisic

The reason for writing that essay was less a personal agenda than an attempt to explain my unease with the general label of "immigrant…

— Sasa Stanisic

American literature has always been immigrant.

— Salman Rushdie

I think in a larger sense, immigrant narrative is comprehensive and speaks to the core of human experience.

— Andrew Lam

There's virtually nothing made up in 'The Immigrant.' So much of the film came from somewhere in my family's past. All the details are…

— James Gray

“Is not literature meant to speak of our being a thousand different kinds of things, at times creating even this diversity? If literature gives…

— Peter Esterhazy

Immigration, a lexicon. You're a 'migrant' when you're very poor; 'immigrant' when you're not so poor; and 'expat' when you're rich.

— Laila Lalami

“This was mere unfounded prejudice--that seems obvious to me--because neither before nor after existed, nor any place to immigrate from, but there were those…

— Italo Calvino

Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Successful immigrants assimilate or become bi-cultural.

— David Starkey

“Being an immigrant is not a status but a state of mind. It doesn’t stop when you “assimilate” or “integrate” or when you go…

— Stewart Stafford

“Multiculturalism helps immigrants postpone the pain of letting go of the anachronistic and inappropriate. It locks people into corrupt, inefficient, and unjust social systems,…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I was interested in immigration and I wanted to use that in the film, not necessarily to talk about immigrants, although I wanted to…

— Philippe Falardeau