Quotes About Displacement

En el exilio todo intento de arraigo se considera traición: es el reconocimiento de la derrota.

In my family we've always found the world's air hard to breathe; we arrive hoping for somewhere better.

The blues is just another name for not having any place

It's worse than unwelcome, said Samuel. The Africans don't even see us. They don't even recognize us as the brothers and sisters they sold.

already know by instinct we're not comfortably at home in our translated world.

The mystery of catastrophe discloses a fuller and deeper understanding of the why and the what behind diaspora and the catastrophes which lead to movements of people as refugees, migrants, and displaced peoples to fulfill God's global plan of redemption.

As a result of the incident and subsequent media coverage, I have been forced to leave my home, my school, my employer, my family and ultimately, my entire life.

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.

Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn't the ship go under and drown me before I came to America?

All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere.

But because it lay between those two countries, first it would be conquered and ruled by the Egyptians, and then the Babylonians would invade, so that the people who lived there were constantly being driven from one place to another. They built themselves towns and fortresses, to no avail. They were still not strong

At the root of Spanglish is a very universal state of being. It is a dis placement from one place, home, to another place, home, in which feels at home in both places, Yet at home in neither place. It is a kind of banging-one's-head-against-the-wall state, and the only choice you have left is to embrace the transitory (read transnatiknal) state of in-between.

Learning new things can be easy when there is no unlearning involved. But if the new learning has to displace some old habits of telling, two anxieties come into play that have to be managed. First, survival anxiety is the realization that unless we learn the new behavior, we will be at a disadvantage (metaphorically threatened by extinction). Survival anxiety provides the motivation to learn, even if it is mostly nervous energy.

My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, and I am not enough in sympathy with our gross public to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most displaced and useless class on earth!

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child,A long ways from home,A long ways from home.

The cruelty and confusion that the proscription brought about was widespread

Having grown up in a Black neighborhood, gone to a segregated Black public school that was overcrowded and underfunded, watched my neighbors be displaced when rents went up and they couldn't afford to pay them - all this shaped my career.

I moved around a lot when I was a child; two of the houses I grew up in have totally disappeared. One was burnt in a riot, and the other was pulled down.

The twenty-first century will be characterized by the mass movement of people being pushed and pulled within and beyond their borders by conflict, calamity, or opportunity.

In many cities, it's become popular to hate 'gentrifiers,' rich people who move in and drive up housing prices - pushing everyone else out.

I'm flying all around the world, and it's hard to be settled.

Eviction is fundamentally changing the face of poverty.

I have been a stranger in a strange land

Starlight displaced just enough of the night to charge each shadow with menace.