Emayatzy Corinealdi Quotes

I was born in Cyprus, but my family moved to England when I was about six.

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

I came to America when I was 9. My mother brought me.

I was very young when I left Brazil.

The first time I lived in L.A. I was too young. I really wanted to be back home in Vancouver.

My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.

I've done a lot of things away from my homeland.

During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.

My mother gave up everything for me. In Yekaterinburg, she had a job and an apartment in the centre of the city and her whole life. And in Moscow - nothing.

When I was six years old, my parents told me that we were moving back home to Armenia. I didn't really understand what was happening. My father had stopped playing football, and he was at home all the time.

Six months after I was born, we moved to Ghana. The first five years of my life were there. In 1982, when there was a coup d'etat, my family left because the government was overthrown, and my dad was involved in politics.

I'm an immigrant. I came here when I was 3 months old.

Does anyone who leaves a Baltic country ever want to return to it? Someone must, I suppose.

Emigration is always a difficulty.

I'm out of Russia and have no plans to go back.

My family immigrated to the States in 1981, when I was 14.

I was born in Birmingham, and then I moved to Rotterdam when I was about five/six and then came back when I was 14.

My parents left Libya in 1979, escaping political repression, and settled in Cairo. I was nine.

I knew that I would have to leave Venezuela in order to figure out who I was.

I was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and we moved when I was 4.

As a child, I thought we had come to Mumbai for a holiday. I did not realise that this holiday was permanent.

It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.

When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.

I moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation.

I was actually born in Chicago, and then when I was a toddler, my parents moved to Philadelphia.