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Great Migration Quotes

America is the last great goal of these migrations Picture Quote #1

Well, I’m a daughter of the great migration as, really, the majority of African Americans that you meet in the north and west are products of the great migration. It’s that massive. Many of us owe our very existence to the fact that people migrated Picture Quote #1

There are certain things that we take for granted that simply would not have existed without the great migration. Motown, for example, would not have existed - it simply would not, because Berry Gordy, the founder of it, his parents had migrated from Georgia to Detroit where he founded Motown, and where did he get his talent? Picture Quote #1

What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude Picture Quote #1

And there, next to me, as the east wind blows in early fall, a season open to great migrations, are those lives, threading the air and waters of the sea, that come out of an incomparable darkness, which is also my own Picture Quote #1

Immigration is a kind of pilgrimage. That’s the way I see it. Just to go back to the desert, biblical metaphors, that’s the story of great migration right there, the Old Testament Picture Quote #1

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Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west Picture Quote #1

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America is the last great goal of these migrations (Great Migration Quotes) Well, I’m a daughter of the great migration as, really, the majority of African Americans that you meet in the north and west are products of the great migration. It’s that massive. Many of us owe our very existence to the fact that people migrated (Great Migration Quotes) There are certain things that we take for granted that simply would not have existed without the great migration. Motown, for example, would not have existed - it simply would not, because Berry Gordy, the founder of it, his parents had migrated from Georgia to Detroit where he founded Motown, and where did he get his talent? (Great Migration Quotes) What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude (Great Migration Quotes) And there, next to me, as the east wind blows in early fall, a season open to great migrations, are those lives, threading the air and waters of the sea, that come out of an incomparable darkness, which is also my own. (Great Migration Quotes) Immigration is a kind of pilgrimage. That’s the way I see it. Just to go back to the desert, biblical metaphors, that’s the story of great migration right there, the Old Testament. (Great Migration Quotes) Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west (Great Migration Quotes)