Immigrant Experience Quotes
Immigrant Experience Quote of the day
Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady.
Soon we could barely recognize them. They were taller than we were, and heavier. They were loud beyond belief. I feel like a duck that's hatched goose's eggs.
Push away the past, that vessel in which all emotions curdle to regret.
What is it about me that gets them all crying? It’s not the end of the world.
That's what you do in America: you smile at people you don't know and you smile at people you don't even like and you smile for no reason.
Margaret looked at the ring on her finger. "Gran gave me this before we boarded the ship. It's the most special thing in the world to me. I'll never take it off, Hanna. No matter how hungry I am.
In the face of all his handicaps, Jurgis was obliged to make the price of a lodging, and of a drink every hour or two, under penalty of freezing to death.
Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everything.
