"It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies."

Diversity, Babies, Credit, Culture, Open

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"It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies."

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"Individuals who speak languages other than English, who speak patois as well as standard English, find it a necessary aspect of self-affirmation not to feel compelled to chose one voice over another, not to claim one as more authentic but rather to construct social realities that celebrate, acknowledge and affirm differences, variety."

bell hooks, American Critic

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"There never were two opinions alike in all the world no more than two hours or two grains: the most universal quality is diversity."

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"Hating skin color is contempt for God's divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity."

T. F. Hodge, American Motivational Speaker

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"The world is no longer white, black, yellow and brown. Through love, tribes have been intermixing colors to reveal a new rainbow world. And as more time passes, this racial and cultural blending will make it harder for humans to side with one race, nation or religion over another."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

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"We are all different and we all have a different sense of humor."

John Patrick Hickey, American Author

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"At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn't matter. You said, 'That's an American' because there's a readiness to smile and to talk to people."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"Jane Austen had created six heroines, each quite different, and that gave Charlotte courage. There wasn't just one kind of woman to be."

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"People wonder who is who,Everyone is different - even you!"

Christina Engela, South African Author

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"The blind can see love, the deaf can hear love, the mute can express love, and the disabled can carry love."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"They tell us variety is the spice of life - and yet diversity terrifies them."

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"There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash."

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"It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history."

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"I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life."

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"There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?"

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"Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well."

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"After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book."

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"Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances."

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"When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out."

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"There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control."

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"Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else."

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