Immigration Immigrant Experience Quotes

“What is it about me that gets them all crying? It’s not the end of the world.”
― Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama

“Immigration is an opaque glass box whose front door opens outwards.”
― Eva Asprakis, Thirty-Eight Days of Rain: Winner of the 2024 Ink Book Prize for Fiction

“He has no ABCD friends at college. He avoids them, for they remind him too much of the way his parents choose to live, befriending people not so much because they like him, but because of a past they happen to share.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri

“Ojiugo often asked, 'But are they treating you well? Are they treating you well?' as though the treatment was what mattered, rather than the blighted reality of it all, that he was in a holding center, about to be deported. Nobody behaved normally. They were all under the spell of his misfortune.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“Who needs smoke machines and stick-figure flags when you can have a straightforward visa application.”
― Dipti Dhakul