What makes you think I ever got married? Married women work themselves to death, all their money goes to husbands who gamble it away. Why would I ever do that to myself?

~ Kim Van Alkemade

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Perhaps women were once so dangerous they had to have their feet bound.

~ Maxine Hong Kingston

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Dare I ask Mao and his Communist Party?I fear my throat will be cut into two pieces.In the name of revolution, for thought crimes,Such questions can turn me to ashes.

~ Zoë S. Roy

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Okay. I’m not a white male. At least, not predominantly so. And as I mentioned before, I’m in an environment right now where race is really important. See, Chinese men are not that physically intimidating. We’re not that tall. We’re not that built. We have exactly one thing going for us in a fight — that our opponent recognizes that there’s a possibility, no matter how remote, that we might know kung-fu.

~ Phillip Andrew Bennett Low

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Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everything.

~ Stacey Lee

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