26 Quotes About Diaspora

But a generation that knows only how to travel — can they teach a generation how to arrive?

The brick walls that appear are not there as obstacles, they are simply there for you to prove how much you want to stay

Grit and tenacity will take you far in life, but love and forgiveness will carry you to the finish line.

You scour these Chinatowns of the mind, translating themlike sutras Xuan Zhang fetched from India, testing waysreturn might be possible against these homesick inventions, trace the traveller's alien steps across borders, and in between discover how transit has a way of lasting, the way these Chinatowns grew out of not knowing whether to return or to stay, and then became home.

my mother thinks i’m a living proof of cultural appropriationbut aren’t i a foreigner in my own countryan outsiderbut only on the inside

And the further they go, the more they'll remember, they can take it from me.

Tri godine trajao je period pretvaranja u kanadskoga drzavljanina. To je vrijeme po misljenju tamosnjih vlasti dovoljno da covjek zaboravi na sve razloge koji ga vuku kuci i da prihvati kako kuca vise ne postoji ili je barem nema tamo gdje si rodjen.

This undying vigilance is such a part of the Jewish psyche that it might as well be genetic. Nomads we are, and nomads we remain. Cars replaced caravans, tents calcified into houses, yet the wanderings of old course through us, simmering under the surface.

The day your education makes you roll your eyes at your father. The day your exposure makes you call your own mother uncivilized, the day your amazing foreign degrees make you cringe as your driver speaks pidgin english, may you never forget your grandfather was a farmer from Oyo state who never understood english.