Halima Aden Quotes

Immigrants are changed by the greater society. Immigrants change the greater society.

Once people come to Australia, they join the team.

I think integration in Norway is, by all standards, going relatively well. People are working, taking education, learning the language. But, yes, it is a challenge. And democracy and democratic debate has to be open to take that debate openly and not push questions aside.

Those who stay in America should be open to society without melting.

New Americans are not to be feared as strangers. They are to be welcomed as neighbors.

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.

I know that if I have come to Britain, I must adapt, and I will try to.

I was an immigrant when I came, and one of my biggest things was I really wanted to fit in. I didn't want to be, 'Oh, look at that guy;' I wanted to be part of the crowd. Which is a weird thing, because the more successful I got, the more out of the crowd I became.

It was not so easy for me in Scotland in general.

I love working with newcomers.

Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

I'll always be a foreigner.

Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.

The first years of my life in the U.S. were very difficult.

If I were king of the world there wouldn't be boat people, there would only be people coming in boats. I would mix us all up so that we were all exactly one shade of each other.

I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it.

America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.

My mother is American. I first went to school in America, and we came back when I was about six to rural Norfolk. In primary school, I was teased immediately and mercilessly. I probably dropped that accent within about 10 days.

When you move from a different country, it takes a while to make friends. I found myself being lonely a lot at first. In New Delhi, I had all my family. But Portland is one of those cities you can immerse yourself in and feel comfortable. People are so friendly.

The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.

Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of my life and friendships. I learned quickly how to stand alone.

We have a whole bunch of young people and a whole bunch of families. Are we going to disrupt these families and tear them apart? Or are we going think, like, listen - these people are here. We've got to deal with this reality. We've got to extend the franchise.

Sports are a microcosm of society.