Quotes Tagged With :diaspora

It may be that writers in my position,exiles, or emigrants or expatriates, are haunted by some sense....

The light on her face was a lesson, a book that she hoped he would want to read, but he looked away from....

‎"I was born in the US and l have lived in Mexico since 1946. I believe that all these states of being....

Inevitably, though, there will always be a significant part of the past which can neither be burnt nor....

Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.

And thus to my final and most melancholy point: a great number of Stalin's enforcers and henchmen in....

A Jewish woman in exile in the 1930s is an antihero.

You scour these Chinatowns of the mind, translating themlike sutras Xuan Zhang fetched from India, testing....

It is psychotic to draw a line between two places.It is psychotic to go.It is psychotic to look.Psychotic....

What tethers me to my parents is the unspoken dialogue we share about how much of my character is built....