Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

I've gotten used to being a foreigner.

The film 'Documented,' a project of the nonprofit and nonpartisan Define American campaign, is about my families: the family I was blessed to be born into, and the family of friends, mentors and allies that I found when I moved to the United States at 12, a Filipino kid trying to make sense of my new home in America.

It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.

I came to America to make it my home, and I did.

I have sort of made it my mission to be treated less as a foreigner, less as a guest.

The longer you are in a place, the more you get under its layers.

In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.

There are rumors that we want to move back to the U.K., but we're so happy in America I actually can't see us ever leaving... People ask me how long it took to adapt. Twenty minutes.

Once you are an immigrant, you never forget that you are one.

I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.

I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.

When you live in New York, one of two things happen - you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.

America is a land in which a man forgets his native country.

London made my family and myself.

I will carry with me always the deep sense of what it feels like to be an outsider and how tough it was, how hard it was to adapt to this country.

I adopted England as least as much as England adopted me.

They've lived here now for more than half of their lives, and they raised a family here and now have grandchildren here... It has become their home, but at the same time, for my parents, I don't think either of them will ever consciously think, 'I am an American.'

When I came to America, I had some surprises at first, but I could soon adjust.

Being an immigrant myself, but feeling very American, and also being the child of immigrants, I understand the feeling of wanting a home.

Ever since I was little, when I moved to Canada, Canada has been my home.

I refused to learn English for two years when we moved to London, hoping to send my family back home. It was tough, but at the same time, it has given me a sense of displacement that actually really suits the life that I'm living now.

What any immigrant is after is a taste of home.

I'm sort of half-Chilean at this point anyway, half-Argentine. This is where I have been living and working for a long time now.

I was just stunned when I came to America. I didn't know anything about rock music or football, and I felt very out of it... America was like a foreign country to me at first.

I landed in New Jersey, where I could barely speak English, and I had to figure out what a short brown kid was going to do in this big white world.