Quotes About Hmong

#1. We'd better go," I say. "It's time for you to make Hmong babies."
Toua pulls free from my grasp. "You little
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"Go. Further the great Flower Clan. The mountainous homeland will sing from your victorious loins."
"You're disgusting!

Rose Christo

#2. Timothy Dunnigan: The kinds of metaphorical language that we use to describe the Hmong say far more about us, and our attachment to our own frame of reference, than they do about the Hmong.

Anne Fadiman

#3. Coldness settles again in my stomach. I do not want a nice Hmong girl. I want a nice Egyptian boy who teaches me about colors and makes me appreciate poetry. I want the nice Egyptian boy who stops in the middle of the day to say Thank you, God. For everything.

Rose Christo

#4. The Hmong never had any interest in ruling over the Chinese or anyone else; they wanted merely to be left alone, which, as their later history was also to illustrate, may be the most difficult request any minority can make of a majority culture.

Anne Fadiman

#5. You know Anne,' he said quietly, 'when I am with a Hmong or a French or an American person, I am always the one who laughs last at a joke. I am the chameleon animal. You can place me anyplace, and I will survive, but I will not belong. I must tell you that I do not really belong anywhere.

Anne Fadiman

#6. The kinds of metaphorical language that we use to describe the Hmong say far more about us, and our attachment to our own frame of reference, than they do about the Hmong. So much for the Perambulating Postbox Theory.

Anne Fadiman

#7. All the men's clothes she wore just called attention to how much of a girl she was.

Rainbow Rowell

#8. The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#9. My sense of stand up comedy would be so esoteric.

Paul Rudd

#10. One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

Marcel Proust

#11. In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.

Orhan Pamuk

#12. Just because a man had a trace of blue blood in his veins didn't mean he was quality. It didn't make him a gentleman, either. All it made him was an aristocrat.

Nora Roberts

#13. When in doubt, initiate. Say yes - to love, to life, to joining in with others. That is how we stay on the right path and, at the same time, elevate humanity.

Philip Toshio Sudo

#14. I very rarely get actually sad when ending a movie.

Mila Kunis

#15. Evil, unchecked, is the prelude to genocide. - Anonymous

Joel C. Rosenberg