Isabel Wilkerson Quotes

• You must leave this world a better place than it would have been if you had not existed.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  World, Better Place, Has Beens

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• People leave when life becomes untenable where they are.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Personas

  "The Great Migration & ‘The Warmth Of Other Suns’: Isabel Wilkerson On The African American Immigrant Story". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2010.

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• 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

  Native American, People, Made

  "The Great Migration & ‘The Warmth Of Other Suns’: Isabel Wilkerson On The African American Immigrant Story". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2010.

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• It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.

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  Matter, Geography, Save Me

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• Esa es una de las mayores pérdidas, creo, para las familias afroamericanas, es que la gente, una vez que se fueron, se alejaron del Sur. No miraron atrás, y a menudo no se lo contaron a sus hijos. No querían hablar de ello. Era demasiado doloroso, por lo que habían pasado y por el sistema de castas del Sur, que era Jim Crow.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Children, Loss, Thinking

  "Journalist Isabel Wilkerson". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. December 23, 2010.

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• And in some ways, to me, that's one of the inspiring and powerful things about the Great Migration itself. There was no leader, there was no one person who set the date who said, 'On this date, people will leave the South.' They left on their own accord for as many reasons as there are people who left. They made a choice that they were not going to live under the system into which they were born anymore and in some ways, it was the first step that the nation's servant class ever took without asking.

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  Powerful, Class, People

  "Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 13, 2010.

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• La suburbanización y los guetos que se crearon como resultado de los límites de donde [los afroamericanos] podían vivir en el Norte [siguen existiendo hoy en día] Y ... el Sur se vio obligado a cambiar, en parte porque estaban perdiendo una gran parte de su mano de obra a través de la Gran Migración.

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  Ghetto, African American, Migration

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• 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.

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  Hija, Madre, Gente

  "Journalist Isabel Wilkerson". "Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. December 23, 2010.

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• It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white Bibles to swear to tell the truth on in many parts of the South.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Black And White, Play, People

  "Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 13, 2010.

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• [La Gran Migración ha influido tanto en casi todos los aspectos de nuestras vidas: desde la música que escuchamos hasta la política de nuestro país, pasando por el aspecto de las ciudades.

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  Country, Cities, Looks

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• Lo que me encanta de las historias de la Gran Migración es que no se trata de historia antigua, sino de historia viva. La mayoría de la gente de color puede encontrar a alguien en su propia familia que haya vivido algún tipo de migración, que conozca la sensación de desarraigo, anhelo y fortaleza.

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  Color, Knowing, People

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• A principios del siglo XX, antes de que comenzara la migración, el 90% de todos los afroamericanos vivían en el Sur. Al final de la Gran Migración, casi la mitad de ellos vivían fuera del Sur, en las grandes ciudades del Norte y del Oeste. Así que, cuando comenzó esta migración, había un número realmente pequeño de personas que vivían en el Norte y sobrevivían como porteadores o empleados domésticos o predicadores -algunos habían alcanzado niveles de trabajos profesionales-, pero estaban, en cierto modo, protegidos porque eran muy pequeños.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Jobs, Small Numbers, Cities

  "Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 13, 2010.

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• Muchos inmigrantes no hablan de lo que sufrieron en su país. Huían de ese mundo y cuando se fueron no querían hablar de ello porque el sistema de castas del Sur les había causado dolor y angustia. No querían cargar a sus hijos con lo que ellos habían sufrido.

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  Children, Pain, Home

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• Mis padres no se consideraban en absoluto parte de la Gran Migración. Sabían que formaban parte de una gran oleada. Nadie hablaba de ella en esos términos ni le daba un nombre.

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  Thinking, Names, Parent

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• Sometimes in some places they would actually stop the train - keep the train from stopping at a particular station because they saw that there were so many black people there waiting to board and so therefore those people wouldn't get to leave.

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  People, Waiting, Black

  "Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 13, 2010.

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• There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know. But there were actually colored windows at the post office in, for example, Pensacola, Florida. And there were white and colored telephone booths in Oklahoma. And there were separate windows where white people and black people would go to get their license plates in Indianola, Mississippi. And there were even separate tellers to make your deposits at the First National Bank in Atlanta.

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  Doctors, Florida, Waiting Rooms

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• 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?

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Parent, Example, Berries

  "Journalist Isabel Wilkerson". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. October 6, 2010.

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• My parents sent me to a school across town, an integrated school, where I had the chance to meet and grow up with people who were from other parts of the world. ... I remember feeling that I would never have anything to contribute on St. Patrick's Day. I couldn't tell the stories that they might have been telling about their forebears and I felt left out.

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  Growing Up, School, People

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• I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee Airman who was from Southern Virginia. They migrated to Washington and I wouldn't even exist if it were not for that migration. And I brought her back to Georgia, both my parents, actually.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Madre, Padre, Media

  "Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 13, 2010.

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• Miles Davis, his parents migrated from Arkansas to Illinois, where he had the luxury of being able to practice for hours upon hours. He never would have been able to do that in the cotton country of Arkansas.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Country, Illinois, Practice

  "Journalist Isabel Wilkerson". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 6, 2010.

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• Cualquier cosa que pudiera concebirse para separar a los negros de los blancos era ideada y codificada por alguien en algún estado del Sur. Había salas de espera para blancos y para negros en todas partes, desde los consultorios médicos hasta las estaciones de autobuses, como quizá ya se sepa.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  White, Doctors, Waiting Rooms

  "Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 13, 2010.

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