Kieran Yates > Quotes

“I see coming back to my village as significant, thanks to my privilege of being able to leave. But also because I can simultaneously cherry-pick my favourite aspects of my culture for anecdotes back home and social media, and keep the private, painful reflective ones for myself. This is what so many second-and-third generation immigrants experience visiting their homeland. We fine-tune the ability to find the nuances funny, deflecting the crushing weight of displacement and dispora drama that becomes part of our everyday.”
― Kieran Yates, The Good Immigrant

“I'm amazed that even as recently as 2012, that colonial spirit of finding humour in difference lived on in the hearty laughs of people using my grandad's accent to be entertained.”
― Kieran Yates, The Good Immigrant