Top 54 My Lai Quotes
#1. The hardest - the part that's hard is to kill, but once you kill, that becomes easier, to kill the next person and the next one and the next one." -Varnado Simpson, Charlie Company of My Lai
Jonathan Glover
#2. 'These boat people,' says the government of Hong Kong, 'they all want to go to America.' Well, I swear I don't know why, do you? I mean, take Vietnam. Why would any Vietnamese come to America after what American did to Vietnam? Don't they remember My Lai, napalm, Sylvester Stallone?
Linda Ellerbee
#3. The photographs of the inmates at Bergen-Belsen or Andersonville Prison or the bodies in the ditch at My Lai disturb us in a singular fashion because those instances of egregious human cruelty were committed for the most part by baptized Christians.
James Lee Burke
#4. A poster of the massacre at My Lai, picturing women and children lying clumped together in a heap, their bodies riddled with bullets, hung on my wall as a daily reminder of the brutality in the world.
Assata Shakur
#5. Mother says,
People share
when they know they have escaped hunger.
Shouldn't people share
because there is hunger?
Thanhha Lai
#6. The moment you put something down on paper it forces you to organize and arrange these thoughts a little better.
Jimenez Lai
#7. What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way for us to formulate a diagram of how people used to live.
Jimenez Lai
#8. Would be simpler
if English
and life
were logical
Thanhha Lai
#9. The diagram of the house is a portrait of the family, a true portrait, whether it's sad or happy.
Jimenez Lai
#10. One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around us as well as the making of worlds.
Jimenez Lai
#11. Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession.
Jimenez Lai
#12. Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.
Thanhha Lai
#14. No, Mr. Johnston doesn't have a horse, nor has he ever ridden one. What kind of a cowboy is he?
Thanhha Lai
#15. My curse: rebellious in my head but oh-so-lovely in real life.
Thanhha Lai
#16. Writing is my life. Life is my hobby.
Emma Lai
#17. All day
I practice
squeezing hisses
through my teeth.
Whoever invented
English
must have loved
snakes.
Thanhha Lai
#18. The dining room is a building; the bathroom is a building. If we scatter this single-program architecture inside of a domestic environment, we can link an interior urbanism in a way similar to a village or a township of tiny houses.
Jimenez Lai
#19. I hate being told I can't do something because I'm a girl!
Thanhha Lai
#20. How easily we abandon those who have suffered the same persecutions as we have. How quickly we grow impatient with their inability to transcend the conditions of our lives.
Larissa Lai
#21. This story is about stink, after all, a story about rot, about how life grows out of the most fetid-smelling places. I leaned into the wall of the coiled cabin, snail, the body curled in upon itself, spine coiled, a snake lying in wait.
Larissa Lai
#22. The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in.
Jimenez Lai
#23. Morphology happens over time. It's not necessarily a bad thing.
Jimenez Lai
#24. It is possible to construct small realities that contain political or philosophical responses, not necessarily just practical or economical responses.
Jimenez Lai
#25. Mother warns
how we act today
foretells the whole year
Thanhha Lai
#26. When I would present my work as a student, often I would hear, "Your project is too formal" - it's too form-based; it's too form-driven. Which is kind of shocking for a visual practice, for someone to say something discouraging about a focus on an exploration of aesthetics.
Jimenez Lai
#27. As a visual discourse, architecture requires trained individuals to work on the refined philosophical debates. School gave me the necessary training, and I've built on this based on my own aesthetics, as most do.
Jimenez Lai
#28. Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work.
Jimenez Lai
#29. Oh, my daughter,
at times you have to fight,
but preferably
not with your fists.
Thanhha Lai
#30. The world is meaningless and therefore it's funny.
Jimenez Lai
#32. The obsession was so real and so prolonged. Sleeping was kind of like taking breaks from continuing the obsession.
Jimenez Lai
#33. Everyone knows the ship could sink, unable to hold the piles of bodies that keep crawling on like raging ants from a disrupted nest. But no one is heartless enough to say stop because what if they had been stopped before their turn?
Thanhha Lai
#34. How can we scramble away like rats, without honor, without dignity, when everyone must help rebuild the country?
Thanhha Lai
#35. Black seeds spill like clusters of eyes, wet and crying.
Thanhha Lai
#36. True revolutionary change begins by first challenging yourself -- not the world. Until you own your story and the complexities of your experience, no matter how much you may strain against it, you will still be enslaved -- if not by your oppressor, by your past.
Sil Lai Abrams
#37. Our lives
will twist and twist,
intermingling the old and the new
until it doesn't matter
which is which.
Thanhha Lai
#38. Every time I traveled to a new city, I would learn about local heroes I did not know about, and I would learn about their very impressive contribution to their cities.
Jimenez Lai
#39. When you own nothing, it's hard to believe you have anything to lose.
Larissa Lai
#40. I tell you of my loss, child, so you will listen, slowly, and know that in life every emotion is fated to rear itself within your being. Don't judge it proper or ugly. It's simply there and yours.
Thanhha Lai
#41. Mother tells me,
They tease you
because they adore you.
Thanhha Lai
#42. It is a little bit humiliating when I have to say that Chou En-lai to me appears as the most superior brain I have so far met in the field of foreign politics ... so much more dangerous than you imagine because he is so much better a man than you have ever admitted.
Dag Hammarskjold
#43. This year I hope
I truly learn
to fly-kick
not to kick anyone
so much as
to fly.
Thanhha Lai
#44. Whoever invented English
should have learned
to spell.
Thanhha Lai
#45. I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects.
Jimenez Lai
#46. No one would believe me but at times I would choose wartime in Saigon over peacetime in Alabama.-Inside Out and Back Again
Thanhha Lai
#47. I saw sunrises fade and burn among fleets of sparks. The moon blossomed
like a lily carved of bone ...
The Death of the Astronaut, page 390.
Lewis Turco
#48. We glide and I feel as if I'm floating.
Thanhha Lai
#49. In order for architecture to experience its ongoing evolution as a language, there has to be a lot of adjusted copies between how architects draw, think, engage bylaws and constraints.
Jimenez Lai
#50. I believe architecture is a cultural output and I think Rem Koolhaas is one of the rare individuals who was able to really output architecture as cultural artifact.
Jimenez Lai
#51. In order to break free from the chains that bind, one must take whatever action they can to disconnect internally from the larger systems of oppression, of which the family unit is merely a microcosm.
Sil Lai Abrams
#52. Why no s for two deer,
but an s for two monkeys?
Brother Quang says
no one knows.
So much for rules!
Whoever invented English should be bitten by a snake.
Thanhha Lai
#53. I see architecture as a form of communication over time.
Jimenez Lai
#54. In some cases there are ways of thinking about what an architectural program produces - interior and exterior - that is not necessarily directed by an economic requirement, but is a diagram based on human actions, selfish or otherwise.
Jimenez Lai
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