"I felt pretty good growing up. I didnt feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing."

-- David Henry Hwang

#Growing Up Quotes #Character Quotes #Racism Quotes

“But once an original book has been written - and no more than one or two appear in a century - men of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that hundreds of thousands of books are published on exactly the same theme, with slightly different titles and modified phraseology. This should be able to be achieved by apes, who are essentially imitators, provided, of course, that they are able to make use of language.”
“Like bookends, we have learned to support each other when the stuff in the middle pushes us apart.”

Source : Liane Holliday Willey (2014). “Pretending to be Normal: Living with Asperger's Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder) Expanded Edition”, p.96, Jessica Kingsley Publishers
“Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.”
“I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If you feel just one thing in your life-that life is nothing but the gift of God-you are divine and the most courageous person. Try it! Try it as a thought. The moment you feel that life is a gift, you'll become prosperous.”
“He has a song in his heart for me. I hope it is not "Shut Uppa You Face, Whatsa Matta You.”
“The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.”
“No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.”

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