Isabel Wilkerson Quotes

Isabel Wilkerson

American Journalist

Born: 1961

Back Black Great Parents People Would

Related authors: Ambrose Bierce Dave Barry Erma Bombeck Hunter S. Thompson Mignon McLaughlin Walter Cronkite William F. Buckley, Jr. William Lloyd Garrison

America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because people came from someplace else. Isabel Wilkerson

People Made Else Someplace Someplace Else Over Because Came Up America American Native Native Americans Strait Who Even

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. Isabel Wilkerson

Great You People Daughter Meet Our Fact Massive Majority Well West Existence Very North Owe American African African Americans Us Migration Really Products Many

Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't want to talk about it because there had been pain and heartbreak under the caste system of the South. They didn't want to burden their children with what they had endured. Isabel Wilkerson

No more Isabel Wilkerson quotes

Haven't find the right quote? Try quotes from authors related to Isabel Wilkerson.