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Assimilate Quotes

Quotes on identity, culture, and what it means to assimilate.

These quotes look at assimilation from a few directions, including one describing how people come to America, assimilate, and take on the full rights and responsibilities of citizenship.

What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.

Quotes by Zoe Lofgren

I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my...

Quotes by Tamron Hall

Pop culture says that if a black girl is to be taken seriously, she has to assimilate and be as white as possible, to the point of bleaching her hair blonde.

Quotes by Sir Mix-a-Lot

I was far too embarrassed to share the experience of Indian food at school. As a kid, you're desperate to fit in, to assimilate in some way, and everything about me stood out.

Quotes by Sanjeev Bhaskar

America Quotes

Pakistani politics is complicated, and I think it's not something a foreigner can easily assimilate and understand.

Quotes by Richard Holbrooke

We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.

Quotes by Radhanath Swami

I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.

Quotes by Pia Zadora

If people can keep track of all the celebrity gossip, there's no reason we can't also assimilate the key concepts of economic philosophy.

Quotes by Pedro Reyes

As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture but consume its...

Quotes by Pat Buchanan

Black Quotes

I think any city that does the Olympics takes on the world and has to grow and has to kind of assimilate all sorts of folks.

Quotes by Laurence Fishburne

I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to...

Quotes by John Polkinghorne

Whether we start with a provisional status and legal permanent residence... or we set up some other way to assimilate legally, you can't ever put in something that says, 'You can never become a citizen.' That's un-American.

Quotes by Jeff Denham

I love being white, and I think it's something to be very proud of. I don't want our culture diluted. We need to close the borders now and let everyone assimilate to a Western, white, English-speaking way of life.

Quotes by Gavin McInnes

To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does...

Quotes by Ernest Istook

Culture Quotes

When Superman was originally created, by Siegel and Shuster, they were two Jewish immigrants that were desperately trying to assimilate into America. They were having a hard time because they were Jewish. They wanted to get in to mainstream publishing...

Quotes by David S. Goyer

No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it,...

Quotes by Daryl Gates

I was so beat down as a young person - being black, being gay, being unable to assimilate because I could never, ever pull off being butch.

Quotes by Billy Porter

Being a musician, especially at the major label where you work for so long, it becomes a cycle. Write a record, make a record, tour. It's just this cycle, and I don't think there's any life built into it with...

Quotes by Art Alexakis

Everyone learns how to assimilate through watching television. Everyone thinks America is going to be like Hollywood, and when they get here they keep watching TV to find out how to be.

Quotes by Alexandra C. Pelosi

Food Quotes

A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then...

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this collection of assimilate quotes explore?
It explores assimilation as both a literal process of becoming part of a new country and a broader idea, applied to how genres, communities, and beliefs absorb outside influences over time.
Why do people search for quotes about assimilation?
People often look for assimilate quotes when thinking through questions of identity, belonging, or cultural change, since the word captures both the benefits and the tensions of blending into something new.
Is there a quote directly about immigration and citizenship?
Yes, one quote states that what makes America special is that people come, assimilate, and become American with all the rights and responsibilities that citizenship brings.
Does any quote apply assimilation to genre or creative work?
Yes, one quote describes a label and manifesto as tools that let mainstream science fiction safely assimilate a dissident creative influence, applying the word to art rather than people.
Is there a quote about resisting full assimilation of ideas?
Yes, one quote argues for maintaining distinctions between the doctrine of creation and scientific cosmology, resisting the temptation to assimilate the two into a single framework.

Others apply the idea more abstractly, from mainstream science fiction absorbing new influences to questions about maintaining distinctions in Culture and belief.