Iris Chang Quotes

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• Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
• They probably do have an Asian Barbie.
• Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides…
• If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns…
• Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.
• The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.
• I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.
• 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…
• 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…
• For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write…
• It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.
• It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if…
• Please believe in THE POWER OF ONE. One person can make an enormous difference in the world. One person - actually, one idea - can…
• There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
• Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
• I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.
• I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.
• Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
• Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in…
• 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…

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