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“People do what they have to in this life. We try to get from one end of it to the other with dignity and with honor. We do the best we can.”
― The Book of Unknown Americans
― The Book of Unknown Americans
“Maybe it’s the instinct of every immigrant, born of necessity or of longing: Someplace else will be better than here. And the condition: if only I can get to that place.”
― The Book of Unknown Americans
― The Book of Unknown Americans
“The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.”
― All About Love: New Visions
― All About Love: New Visions
“I am not a person to say the words out loud / I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page.”
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“We're the unknown Americans, the ones no one even wants to know, because they've been told they're supposed to be scared of us and because maybe if they did take the time to get to know us, they might realize that we're not that bad, maybe even that we're a lot like them. And who would they hate then?”
― The Book of Unknown Americans
― The Book of Unknown Americans
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