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The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.
Steven Biko
Man
Dignity
Value
Black
Country
Birth
Value Systems
Systems
Must
Seek
Make
Him
Reduce
Foreigner
His
Human
Human Dignity
Basic
Consciousness
Reject
A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
Man
Country
Own
Poor Man
Like
Foreigner
His
Poor
Being a foreigner is not a disease.
Alden Nowlan
Foreigner
Disease
Being
In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.
Aasif Mandvi
You
Matter
Fact
Never
Come
Foreigner
Get
Where
View
Away
Britain
In China, I realized that if you visit often enough and learn the language, you will be assimilated, but you'll still be kept at arm's length; you'll always be looked on as a foreigner.
Abigail Washburn
You
Language
Will
Enough
Visit
Arm
Looked
Learn
Always
Still
Foreigner
Often
China
Length
Realized
Assimilated
Kept
People don't know what it's like being the foreigner until they are one.
Amber Liu
People
Like
Know
Until
Foreigner
Being
In 2007, I went straight from Tokyo to Iowa to join Hillary Clinton's traveling press. I felt like a foreigner there, too. I remember thinking, 'Americans are huge.'
Amy Chozick
Remember
Thinking
Too
Press
Join
Like
Hillary
Iowa
Felt
Foreigner
Clinton
Huge
American
Straight
Tokyo
Traveling
There's been this argument about Coldplay stealing this melody from Joe Satriani, but, if you listen to it, it's mine! It's the 'Foreigner Suite,' it is!
Cat Stevens
You
Argument
Suite
Coldplay
Mine
Melody
Joe
About
Stealing
Been
Foreigner
Listen
I was never very interested in my own experience, I think, in fact, if my films have a common link, maybe it's being a foreigner - it's common for people who are born abroad - they don't know so well where they belong.
Claire Denis
Experience
People
Own
Think
Films
Born
My Own
Abroad
Fact
Never
Know
Well
Foreigner
Link
Very
Maybe
Common
Being
Where
In Fact
Interested
Who
Belong
You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.
Edgar Ramirez
Funny
Day
You
School
Opportunity
First
Guy
New
Accent
Foreigner
Persona
Get
Create
Whole
I'm constantly seen as a 'foreigner,' and I need my passport to prove my identity, to keep moving and to carry on my work.
Emmanuel Jal
Work
Seen
Keep Moving
Carry
Constantly
Identity
Prove
Foreigner
Passport
Moving
Keep
Need
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
Gertrude Stein
Always
Deals
How
Foreigner
Friendly
Very
American
Just
Suspicious
Upsets
Them
Who
Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.
Howard Stringer
Press
Frankly
Has-Been
Running
Idea
Sony
Generous
How
Surprised
Been
Foreigner
Japanese
Moving to India was challenging being a foreigner. I don't have any family here. I didn't have anyone to guide me. But I never felt for a second that I am not welcome here.
Jacqueline Fernandez
Family
Me
Welcome
Guide
India
Never
Felt
Am
Foreigner
Any
Being
Anyone
Moving
Challenging
Second
Here
I find it really liberating to be in a place where I am a foreigner in every way. I've lived with this all my life - this divide, this bifurcation. And in Italy, I don't feel it. There's none of that tension, only the expectation I place on myself to speak the language well. I find it relaxing. Something drops away, and I observe.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Life
Myself
Speak
Language
My Life
Expectation
Every
Way
Liberating
Relaxing
All My Life
Find
Something
Only
Divide
Observe
Tension
Drops
Feel
Well
None
Am
Foreigner
Italy
Where
Place
Really
Lived
Away
I understand the whole constant foreigner stereotype, but for me it's important to portray immigrant characters like Jian-Yang and Danny Meng with humanity.
Jimmy O. Yang
Me
Humanity
Important
Danny
Immigrant
Characters
Constant
Stereotype
Like
Understand
Foreigner
Whole
Portray
I have sort of made it my mission to be treated less as a foreigner, less as a guest.
Kenny Omega
Made
Guest
Mission
Sort
Foreigner
Less
Treated
If you were asking me how it is to be a Muslim in America, it's much harder to be a North African in France than to be a foreigner here in America.
Kenza Fourati
Me
You
France
Muslim
How
Were
Foreigner
Than
North
America
African
Much
Asking
Harder
Here
I find singing some of Foreigner's older songs are a little reckless and not exactly who I am now.
Lou Gramm
Singing
Older
Reckless
Find
Exactly
Some
Songs
Am
Foreigner
Little
Who
Now
It was really terrific but Foreigner was nothing like Yes and that style did not suit our music.
Lou Gramm
Music
Style
Nothing
Our
Our Music
Like
Terrific
Foreigner
Yes
Did
Really
Suit
In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in America, I'm a foreigner. I'm always a foreigner.
Margaret Cho
Heritage
Born
Because
Always
Korean
Foreigner
America
Asia
But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm French or Australian or whatever, it's really not important.
Michel Hazanavicius
Myself
Director
Important
Whatever
Think
French
Frenchman
Foreigner
Australian
Just
Whether
Really
But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director.
Michel Hazanavicius
Myself
Director
Think
Foreigner
Just
I was very affected as a foreigner coming from Copenhagen, which is the safest, most liberal town in the entire galaxy. I was like an alien stranded in a strange land for the first time in the U.S.
Nicolas Winding Refn
Time
Strange
Alien
First
Liberal
Entire
Town
Like
Most
Safest
First Time
Coming
Affected
Foreigner
Very
Which
Galaxy
Land
Stranded
Copenhagen
I'll always be a foreigner.
Olivier Martinez
Always
Foreigner
I've gotten used to being a foreigner.
Pamela Druckerman
Gotten
Foreigner
Being
Used
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