Arthur Dong Quotes

You can't be invisible being Asian. You can't say "Hi, I'm white!"

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• I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Beautiful
  • Wedding
  • White

• I came here with a lot of things that I would like to get done for my community and my constituents. Shooting hoops at the White House was not at the top of the list but would certainly be a thrill.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Done
  • House
  • Community

• I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • Different
  • White

• Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • American
  • Community
  • White

• There's always been that theory that if a candidate can't run a decent campaign, he probably can't run a decent presidency. That might be true, although sadly I must admit that running a brilliant campaign does not translate into running a brilliant White House.

  

  Gail Collins
  • True
  • House
  • Running

• I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

  

  Mae West
  • Funny
  • Snow
  • White

• White House officials acknowledge in broad terms that a president's time and public rhetoric are among his most valuable policy tools.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Time
  • House
  • White

• I learned early that I had to work harder than the white kids and harder than the boys.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Work
  • Kids
  • White

• Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Music
  • Invisible
  • Smell

• I love black truffles. I love white truffles.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Love
  • Black
  • White

• It's not like I just have to go to Washington and go to the White House everyday, and go to the same press conference at 10 in the morning and then be briefed at 4 in the afternoon, and then get a story on at 6.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • House
  • Morning
  • Everyday

• In May 1961, South Africa was to be declared a Nationalist Republic. There was a white referendum, but no African was consulted.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • May
  • White
  • Africa

• The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • History
  • Black
  • White

• We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.

  

  Nas
  • Black
  • White
  • Yellow

• So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • House
  • White
  • Canvas

• In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Kids
  • Broken
  • Same

• Chefs don't use white pepper just to avoid spoiling the whiteness of pommes puree or bechamel. It has a more peppery aroma, with sharpness and sweetness, too.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • White
  • Sweetness
  • Chefs

• Conor was no longer invisible. They all saw him now. But he was further away than ever.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Invisible
  • saw
  • Conor

• Reminded of what a diet really is, I began eating more slowly, being more conscious of when I was full. I started to enjoy my buckwheat bread with goat cheese and pureed butternut-squash soup as a response to real hunger.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Real
  • Enjoy
  • Hunger

• I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Text
  • Phone
  • Hopeless

• To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Experience
  • Together
  • Future

• When you take the time to understand why your parents did the things they did, you stand a good chance of learning more about your own behavior.

  

  Lisa Ling
  • Time
  • Good
  • Why

• You can't be invisible being Asian. You can't say "Hi, I'm white!"

  

  Arthur Dong
  • White
  • Invisible
  • Asian