161 Quotes About Refugees

No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.

For those I come from, there is nothing more devouring than the feeling of want for home, the feeling of need for home. We are all waiting for a form of transport, a ship, a saucer to carry us out of the too-dark night.

Years from now we might be saying it's hyperbolic to compare someone to Donald Trump, because we will be quite sure no one is that cruel.

Most humans are refugees in our countries because all our ancestors scattered across the globe from our homeland Africa.

Language, as usual, is exiled from us.

In the postmodern condition, truth and subjectivity is not entirely dead, but it is not fully alive. Weak thought invites humility, listening, and tentative openings [...] It is a groundwork I hope to explore in my poetry more fully.

[...] in the context of a flood of dark news concerning climate change, refugees and globalization, how can a poem not only provide a pause to remember, but a place of hope: a new plateau of care, compassion and justice?

Hunger takes away what you are. Everything we were was just nothing then.

I do not see that it is necessary for any people to prove to another that they build cathedrals or pyramids before they can be entitled to peace and safety.