Children Quote by Zadie Smith

“..to put it in the modern parlance, this is a re-run. We have been here before. This is like watching TV in Bombay or…

— Zadie Smith

[Immigrants ] are going back where they came. If they came from a certain country, they are going to be brought back to their…

— Donald Trump

With immigrant parents, they've had to sacrifice so much to survive, and they're trying to preserve the culture they lost, so there are just…

— Rupi Kaur

Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't want to…

— Isabel Wilkerson

All across this country, undocumented immigrants are living in fear of seeing their families torn apart because of our broken immigration system. Many of…

— Jan Schakowsky

When you come from an immigrant home, you're in a whole different world until you leave your house. In my teenage years, I had…

— Jessie Reyez

“Immigrant parents, when they first move to North America, push towards whiteness, towards assimilation, to survive and thrive. Naturally, their children do too for…

— Scaachi Koul

When you're an immigrant family, the upbringing, the mentality and the opportunities are all different.

— Kelvin Gastelum

Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland.…

— John Shadegg

“Because this is the other thing about immigrants ('fugees, émigrés, travellers): they cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your…

— Zadie Smith

I think that's what makes many Swedes jealous of immigrant groups. You [immigrants] have a culture, an identity, a history, something that brings you…

— Mona Sahlin

There's nothing more true in being a child of a diaspora, a child of immigrants. We're completely new to our parents. We're not something…

— Junot Diaz