"Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream."

-- Eric Liu

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“If you pay attention to when you are hungry, what your body wants, what you are eating, when you've had enough, you end the obsession because obsession and awareness cannot coexist.”

Source : Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.159, Simon and Schuster
“The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?”
“To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.”
“This isnâ€™t Kirk Cousinsâ€™ job to win. Right now this is Kirk Cousinsâ€™ job to loseâ€¦Heâ€™s putting together a profile right now, a resume of these next seven weeks that will make the decision easy for the Redskins: either they sign him to a contract or theyâ€™re still looking for the quarterback of the future.”
“Children of yesterday, / Heirs of to-morrow, / What are you weaving? / Labor and sorrow? / Look to your looms again. / Faster and faster / Fly the great shuttles / Prepared by the Master, / Life's in the loom, / Room for it - / Room!”
“I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.”
“A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught”
“Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, No.”

Source : "Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 24, 2011.

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