Pearl Tan famous quotes

I'm Australian. I'm assimilated. I was born here - how ocker do I have to be?
-- Pearl Tan

#Born #Australian

My family brought me up to be very assimilated and accepting of everyone. But I do get frustrated when I see other Asians who behave in a way that reflects a stereotype.
-- Pearl Tan

#Frustrated #Way #Stereotype

My friends often say I'm the most racist person they know against Asians. And it's sort of like, "If I make the joke first, then I have the power and I'm holding the cards and you're not going to put me down for that."
-- Pearl Tan

#Cards #Racist #Firsts

Sometimes I feel embarrassed because I'll tell the kids if someone is driving really slow or cutting in, I'll say "Bloody Asian drivers." But I feel justified in saying it because I'm Asian.
-- Pearl Tan

#Kids #Cutting #Asian

I guess racism is sort of like a form of discrimination but it's just that you classify people in different colours and different races. I think everyone is born with an inherent, the inherence to discriminate.
-- Pearl Tan

#Thinking #Race #Racism

I came from a war-torn country and I was a victim of that racism because within tribes, within political lines, people were fighting. The first thing that I like to fight is racism because I know what it means, how it destroys the fabric of my society, of my wellbeing.
-- Pearl Tan

#Country #War #Mean

I see racism as a cancer. It is a cancer growing in us. Unless we stop it, it vegetates and grows bigger which hurts every one of us.
-- Pearl Tan

#Hurt #Cancer #Racism

Or maybe I’d lost my soul already. I doubted God let someone like me keep any gift from him. It was highly likely I’d been born without one.

Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.

In pain is a new time born.

I was born Muslim, my parents are Muslim, I am Bosnian. I cannot be anything else.

Doing what you were born to do … That's the way to be happy.

I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

You can be helping many people, but if you are not helping yourself, you have missed the one person you were born to heal.

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

I'm Australian. I'm assimilated. I was born here - how ocker do I have to be?