Quotes About Immigrant

I don't think France is a racist country, I really don't, but we do still have many problems with our immigrant past, and there's a shame that goes with that, that works both ways, in the host and in the post-immigrant generation.

I'm a first generation immigrant.

I - my experience was really no different from any other immigrant that came to this country. It was rough.

We just need more complex, important roles that tell our experiences as an immigrant; as someone with an accent, but also American; but also someone who's second or third-generation American, born and raised here who actually don't speak any language other than English.

In many immigrant families, the parents are just talking and talking about the home country until the children are like, 'Oh, don't tell us any more.'

It is important to have safe borders, but at the same time, we can't forget what brought us here. This is an immigrant nation.

I never did very well as an immigrant. I've lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.

I feel like I have so many amazing opportunities because of my immigrant mother, my immigrant grandparents.

Being an immigrant gives you so much courage.

One of the hard things coming from an immigrant family - or any family that doesn't believe in the arts - is that you have to disappoint your parents. That's hard for people to do if you're a good kid.

Why am I a liberal? Because I don't forget that I'm an immigrant and that I'm a Hispanic and that I have a Latin accent when I speak English, and I want to defend those who get racially profiled by people who would discriminate against us?

I'm an immigrant and I will stay an immigrant forever.

I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.

Coming from an immigrant background, where a lot of parents don't want their kids to be comedians, success was just showing my mom that I could make a living. I was like, if I can get my mom off my back, that was my success.

It's every immigrant child's dream to tell your parents they don't have to work anymore.

Especially for Haitian immigrant parents, being a musician is not a job.

As a young black immigrant at an inner-city school, I saw how poverty of ambition left many from disadvantaged backgrounds on the scrap-heap.

Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.

I'm a different immigrant. My life is so lucky compared to so many.

I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.

If the Republican Party works with the Hispanic community, the immigrant community, they're natural allies. People who came to this country are more freedom-loving and more American than people who just happened to be born here.

I'm still the community college kid with immigrant parents.

I'm an immigrant. I came here when I was 3 months old.

Lots of special interests play the immigrant blame game every day because they like things the way they are and don't see a need for change.