History Quote by Zadie Smith

...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.

— Zadie Smith

“European emigrants and their descendants are all over the place, which requires explanation.”

— Alfred W. Crosby

“I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced…

— Margaret Atwood

“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 who come to a country are going to lose something, for sure, but they hope to gain a great deal by making this…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

“So they say things like, “Go back to your country,” as if their Irish ancestors never walked through Ellis Island.”

— Dominique Christina Ashaheed

We shall experience the final defeat of liberalism not when immigration but when emigration is forbidden

— Jo Grimond

“Every immigrant is the person he might have been and the person he is, and his homeland is at once the place it would…

— Jade Chang

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

“perhaps we are all immigrants trading one home for another first we leave the womb for air then the suburbs for the filthy city…

— 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

“Fitting is a luxury rarely given to immigrants, or children of immigrants. We are stuck in emotional purgatory. Home, somehow, is always the last…

— Scaachi Koul