Asian Quotes - Page 7

• What's happening is that Asian and Latino and other groups without that history are more likely to end up in either black churches or white churches and then make them multiracial churches. I talk about that in the US we have two cultures.

  Michael Emerson

  Two, White, Black

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think it's easier, I really do, because of not having that similar history, so that's why I think two-thirds of these mixed congregations are either white with Asian and Hispanic, or black with Asian and Hispanic.

  Michael Emerson

  Thinking, White, Two

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In some ways I consider myself more Chinese, because I live in San Francisco, which is becoming a predominantly Asian city. I avoid falling into the black-and-white dialectic in which most of America still seems trapped. I have always recognized that, as an American, I am in relationship with other parts of the world; that I have to measure myself against the Pacific, against Asia. Having to think of myself in relationship to that horizon has liberated me from the black-and-white checkerboard.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Fall, Black And White, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• It’s foolish to talk of an “Asian century” or an “emerging market century” because events move at a pace that renders this degree of durability obsolete.

  Ian Bremmer

  Moving, Pace, Durability

  "A World Without Leadership: Ten Questions with Ian Bremmer". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com.

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• Within the United States, there is a real division between the PhDs given in science and math to the Asian community, to the traditional white community, and then to African-Americans and Hispanics.

  Juan Enriquez

  Real, Math, White

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It's interesting for myself, growing up as an Asian-American filmmaker. Coming into the industry, my parents always said, "No one's going to give you the opportunity. You just have to do the work. Be better than everyone else, so they can't deny it."

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Growing Up, Opportunity, Giving

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• Think of how hard it would be to create a gender-based movement across racial lines as long as one group believes that it has to be strong while seeing the other group as passive and weak. We could also go into the stereotypes of the saucy, mercurial Latina and the docile, easily-dominated Asian woman.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Strong, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Many Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and are only one step away from being homeless. Whether you are white, black, Latino, or Asian, we have to be there to help pick each other up.

  Raheem Devaughn

  White, Black, Steps

  "Raheem DeVaughn: Love, Love, and More Love". Interview with Faith Hunter, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In my view, nobody is really effective in tackling those organized crime networks that are making connections from Africa to Asia to fund and facilitate the poaching of massive volumes of ivory, and then selling it on the Asian market. Very few people have tried globally to tackle that serious organized crime threat that is also linked to militia groups. That needs to change. You need to bring the full weight of government attention to dealing with that.

  Allen Crawford

  Government, Views, Ivory

  "Crawford Allen. Senior Director. Traffic. World Wildlife Fund". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My music is always called "cerebral." It is a way of saying I'm Asian, and therefore everything I do is brainy.

  Vijay Iyer

  Way, Music Is, Cerebral

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There have been, in recent years, many Asian American pioneers in the public eye who've defied the condescendingly complimentary 'model minority' stereotype: actors like Lucy Liu, artists like Maya Lin, moguls like Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. They are known, often admired.

  Eric Liu

  Eye, Artist, Years

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• I joke around all the time, 'I'm Asian; I'm really good at math.'

  Brenda Song

  Math, Jokes

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• My mother was tickled and I think kind of proud when my father got hit on my an attractive middle-aged Asian lady who hadn't noticed he was with his family. He was certainly pleased about it.

  Craig Ferguson

  Marriage, Mother, Father

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• Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.

  Sandra Oh

  Hollywood, Actors, Likes

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• Big scandal on the new 'Survivor' series. The white, the black and the Hispanic teams were caught cheating off the Asian team.

  Jay Leno

  Cheating, Team, White

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• I'm an Asian guy growing up in London so I see myself as British, but India is part of my culture.

  Dev Patel

  Growing Up, Guy, India

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• I only dated one Asian girl, but she was very Asian. She was a panda.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Girl, Humor

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• I believe that if you are bringing a child into the world, you should be willing to accept them in any reality. Whether they are Black, White, Asian, have four fingers, are disabled, gay….that the only wish should be for a happy and healthy baby.

  Dianna Agron

  Baby, Children, Believe

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• We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and gorillas is much more recent than their common ancestor with the Asian apes - the gibbons and orangutans. There is no natural category that includes chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans but excludes humans.

  Richard Dawkins

  Apes, Orangutans, Gorillas

  A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 2003, p. 22,

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• I would love it if, even for one day, you could walk through a neighborhood and see an Asian guy sitting on his stoop, then you look across the street and see a black guy and a white guy sitting on their porches, and a Mexican dude walking by.

  Eminem

  White, Guy, Mexican

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• The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They're just good films. So why we can't we have good films that happen to have black people, or Asian, or Latino, or any other minority group in them?

  Eriq La Salle

  Insomnia, White, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Today, former President Bill Clinton met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il and convinced him to release two American journalists that have been jailed since March. Isn't that great? This is big, yeah. Or as Clinton calls it, another Asian happy ending.

  Conan O'Brien

  Two, President, Bills

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• Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar. In every country on earth, the most human scenario for farmers is likely to be feeding those who live nearby-if international markets would allow them to do it. Food transport has become a bizarre and profitable economic equation that's no longer really about feeding anyone ... If you care about farmers, let the potatoes stay home.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Country, Children, Kindness

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• The 21st century will be the Asian century. This also means that Asians will be expected to provide greater leadership to solve global challenges, including environmental challenges. Hence, this multi-disciplinary programme from NUS could not be more timely. It meets a pressing need to educate, train and empower leading players in the public, private and civil society sectors in Singapore, Asia and the world.

  Kishore Mahbubani

  Mean, Player, Empowering

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• The higher education has always appealed to the South Asian social leaders across all the countries in South Asia. But primary education has been neglected. The oddity, by the way, is if you look at the contrast in India, there are some areas like Kerala where there's a long history of educational development.

  Amartya Sen

  Country, Educational, Oddities

  Source: www.pbs.org

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