Jennifer 8. Lee Quotes
I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.
Jennifer 8. Lee
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
Forest Whitaker
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North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley.
Gardner Dozois
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As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it somewhere else.
Maeve Binchy
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
Federica Mogherini
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
Raghuram Rajan
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I was on Instagram or something, and I checked my tagged photos, and I realized that suddenly they were all LGBT artwork. I was like, 'Oh, my God!' I had no idea. It was the first time I realized I was a figure for that community.
Alycia Debnam-Carey
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There is a perception that the Chinese started out downtrodden and abused in the 19th century and gradually rose to the top of society as model minorities, and you see them winning Nobel Prizes and getting into our best colleges. But it is not a linear progression. Things don't always get better.
Iris Chang
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Most importantly, what you get from a greasy spoon is a certain kind of smell that has been almost legislated out of existence. It is cigaretty, certainly, and it also has the catch-throat quality of smoking fat. It is a warm, companionable fug that rises to meet you as you step through the door on a late autumn day and it is how public places used to smell in my childhood in the 1970s. It is real, it is human, and it beats anything I know.
Kathryn Hughes
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Diversity is not just about the fact that the pictures look better. I mean, they always do look better!
Pramila Jayapal
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I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.
Jennifer 8. Lee
