88 Quotes About Immigrant-experience

If you drop her, she’ll break, but she’ll cut you, too. She’s tough and tender, enraged and exhausted, withdrawn and outgoing, a pessimist brimming with humanist hope.

Many, including my late grandfather, fled the mother country because of economic hardship from the Opium Wars. England coerced China into accepting the black tar in payment for tea and cracked China open like a ginkgo nut. Old injuries still itch.

Barely one year in and our new country let us know, every day, that we were different.

Annie Moore never made a fortune or wrote a book or invented a computer, and why should she? Why should immigrants be deemed extraordinary in order to deserve a place at the table?

As soon as she opened the door to her office and invited us in, a blast of cold wind from the air conditioner swallowed me in its gentle, westernized embrace. I took in a deep breath, and suddenly, America was inside my lungs. Next to me, my mother began to cry.

Give me someone who was born elsewhere yet clearly demonstrates he wants to get involved over someone who was born here yet believes he/she has a right to the money you and I have worked so hard for

Most everybody is from someplace else, therefore there is nothing special about immigration, regardless of how much immigrants are apotheosized.

We wanted a labour force, but human beings came.

When things come to the worst, they generally mend.