Amnesia Quote by Tom Hayden

My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died -…

— George J. Mitchell

“As we all came to discover the limitations of assimilation, we grew closer as a family”

— Miguel Syjuco

I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken to the…

— Chaske Spencer

My grandparents bowed to the Americans and sought to learn from them. My parents sought to be them.

— Alex Tizon

“It then became obvious that ethnic differences (like class distinctions) refused to boil away. Even fairly well established groups, such as Irish-Americans, often nursed…

— James T. Patterson

I grew up on the Eastern Shore during desegregation. A lot of white parents chose to send their kids to private schools rather than…

— Ralph Northam

My mother birthed three children and she adopted myself and another African-American son. My adoptive parents were Finnish. I grew up in a white…

— Michael Franti

My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look…

— Anonymous

In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids…

— Joel Kinnaman

I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with…

— Eavan Boland

My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on…

— Lorraine Bracco

Like tens of millions of Americans, my parents were immigrants. They were poor and did not speak English well. They went to flea markets…

— Ted Lieu