Quotes About Immigrant

I knew I had to write about Canada. I just could not find in literature any examples of the immigrant experience that I've had.

All American fiction could be classified as immigrant fiction.

Libraries are not just places where people go read a book, but places where an immigrant goes to take English lessons and where folks out of a job search for community.

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.

As an immigrant, I have lived, in a way, the American dream, and I want to make sure that opportunity is available for everybody.

There's a lot of negative speak about what it means to be an immigrant. I'm like, 'OK, I don't know where that came from.' We do the dirty jobs. We do the good jobs. We get the job done.

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.

My parents moved to England with that immigrant ethos of self-betterment, but I don't think they expected the kind of grief they experienced.

We have a lot of comments on the news, we have a lot of rhetoric over what an immigrant is and what a deportee is, but you don't hear any real stories. I don't think we ever had the chance to really tell our side.

I grew up in San Diego with immigrant parents, before the food blogs, before this kind of celebrity chef culture we know now.

I'm an immigrant.

I can understand the value of the immigrant experience and that we have become the nation that we are because people like my grandmother were able to make a life in this country.

I can't speak for everybody, and I don't want to say it for an entire culture, but for me, coming from an immigrant family, it's very difficult to go find your voice, which requires a lot of failure.

I want to present the immigrant community in more of a real light.

I loved to sing and dance and play-act, and I always believed that my dream to become an actor would come true because my immigrant parents had taught me to believe in the American dream.

You don't have to be Latino to speak powerfully about how important it is to have a police department that cares for our immigrant communities.

What any immigrant is after is a taste of home.

Other Asian actors, especially American-born actors, sometimes shy away from immigrant roles.

I was born to Chinese immigrant parents, who came from Taiyuan.

I grew up with a single mum, an immigrant mum who couldn't speak the language, no money, three kids on her back, coming from Rwanda, and she's done a sterling job with all three of us.

My favorite thing that I'm learning, in particular, is that the type of love between an immigrant parent and their child growing up in America is a particular nuanced type of love.

I came in as a legal immigrant. My dad came first. We had to wait about a year.

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.

Brick Lane' is actually a place in London where many Bangladeshis live. It is about one such Bangladeshi immigrant family.