Quotes About Diaspora

I can't write about NRI romances.

Today the eyes of orthodox Jews of earth are fixed upon Palestine.

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.

I first visited the Philippines when I was 29. I thought I would feel at home there, but I felt more out of place than I did in the U.S. I discovered I was more American than Filipino. It was shattering because I never felt quite at home in the U.S., either.

Jews outside Israel live in permanent contradiction. I think they should come home.

I love the idea of homeland, but not the actual return to one.

As much as I'm a black person from America, I'm a black person from Africa, too.

I was raised with a father who really believed in the bridge between all Africans around the world.

The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.

The three-and-a-half-week walkout "had little effect on Britain's decision to grant Ireland independence," wrote Bruce Nelson, but it did lead to the integration—if short-lived—of African Americans into the Chelsea Piers workforce, the experience of diaspora and oppression briefly uniting black and Irish dockworkers "who had long regarded each other with suspicion and even hatred.

The lords of the waterfront evinced little or no interest in their ancestral homeland, though their story makes for a meaningful chapter in the saga of the Irish diaspora.

Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally.

The Jewish story is the story of wandering. It is the story of extraordinary heterogeneous complication.

There is a movement in babylon to:- gangjagriculturalize- ras spiritual herb. I will tell you more about this term I coined to show what they will do to rasta and the herb in years to come. I am ras cardo who created reggae. I am-R.H.A.T.I.D- reggae highest authority truthfully informing the diaspora. This is prophecy. I have also told you about-R.A.S.P.E.C.T1.

Does anyone who leaves a Baltic country ever want to return to it? Someone must, I suppose.

I mean in the community that I grew up in, you know, a very, you know, mixed, almost entirely African Diaspora community, one of the things that we were not ever supposed to say was how much self-hatred and colorism determined and guided what we would call our desire. In other words, what we would consider beautiful.

Greek, the lingua franca of the Roman Empire (ironically, Latin was the language least used in the lands occupied by Rome), enough perhaps to negotiate contracts and deal with customers, but certainly not enough to preach. The only Jews who could communicate comfortably in Greek were the Hellenized Herodian elite, the priestly aristocracy in Judea, and the more educated Diaspora Jews, not the peasants and day laborers of Galilee.

Unlike their brethren in the Holy Land, Diaspora Jews spoke Greek, not Aramaic: Greek was the language of their thought process, the language of their worship.

is possible that Jesus had some basic knowledge of Greek, the lingua franca of the Roman Empire (ironically, Latin was the language least used in the lands occupied by Rome), enough perhaps to negotiate contracts and deal with customers, but certainly not enough to preach. The only Jews who could communicate comfortably in Greek were the Hellenized Herodian elite, the priestly aristocracy in Judea, and the more educated Diaspora Jews, not the peasants and day laborers of Galilee.

[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!

Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place.

I loved Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi. Its about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.

If Irish or Italian culture dies in America it really isn't that big a deal. They will still exist in Italy and Ireland. Not so with us. There is no other place. North America is our old country.

Nous, vivants, constituons un fétu de la diaspora cosmique, quelques miettes de l'existence solaire, un menu bourgeonnement de l'existence terrienne.