"We all want to do the right thing for our children. We all don't know what that is and we all - you know, you won't know until the future."

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Source : "Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 13, 2011.

Amy Chua

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“We learn to be racist, therefore we can learn not to be racist. Racism is not genetical. It has everything to do with power.”
“Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.”
“To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit which distinguished it from all that had gone before. It is a vital distinction.”
“What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!”
“Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.”

Source : Kent Nerburn (1999). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Women, Life and Love”, p.189, New World Library
“We are like trees. We wear all colors naturally.”
“I think art is, unfortunately, sometimes our only shot at communicating our indignation safely and effectively.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“I consider that a most ignoble endeavor. The only way I would like to 'help' the great majority of people is the same way Carl Panzram 'reformed' people who tried to reform him. It would be most merciful to help them by relieving them of the life they seem to hate so much. People should be happy I'm not a humanitarian-or I'd probably be the most diabolical mass murderer the world has ever known.”

Source : Interview in Wendy Leigh's Speaking Frankly, 1978.

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