Quotes About Belonging

I'm very interested in getting inside the heads of people society discards, people on the fringe, especially immigrant kids. We dismiss them without getting into details of who they are.

All American fiction could be classified as immigrant fiction.

Immigrant communities have been genuinely accepted in London.

To fully understand the black immigrant experience in the U.S., we must understand it not in contrast to the African-American experience, but central to it.

I feel I have a responsibility to carry out the immigrant story, since it's one that I hold very dear to my heart, since my story is similar in a lot of ways.

I'm an immigrant.

What any immigrant is after is a taste of home.

Our old stories happen to be your new stories. The stories that you're seeing as immigrant stories are your grandparents' stories, are your great-grandparents' stories. You just happen to be separated from them a little bit.

When you are in America, at least for me, as an immigrant, I try to be as Americanized as I could. I just want to be an actor, I don't just want to be an Asian actor necessarily.

I see the Conservative party becoming more and more attractive to people from all different backgrounds, particularly because so many of the immigrant communities are people who work hard and get on in life... so I think they are naturally Conservative.

I was one of the only children having an immigrant father in my elementary school.

We are a nation of immigrants - all of us.

My parents were immigrants.

America was founded on immigrants. The immigrant experience is common to all of us.

I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.

Being that my parents and I were immigrants to Canada, I didn't have the most lavish life growing up.

A lot of people forget that Americans are immigrants. People are forgetting that, to where people have this attitude, 'We're Americans, go back to your country. Go back. This is a free country.' I always heard that growing up. I always heard that.

Who is anyone to say who doesn't deserve to come to this country? I'm a mutt, we're all mutts. Immigrants from whatever country are humans, we have to help each other.

I'm Cuban. My parents are immigrants.

Successful immigrants assimilate or become bi-cultural.

America is a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of people who never emigrate. Notably, Americans living outside the United States are not called emigrants, but 'expats.'

I'm child of immigrants.

Being an immigrant myself, but feeling very American, and also being the child of immigrants, I understand the feeling of wanting a home.

I'm the child of immigrants.