Shame Quote by Xinran

“During the Cultural Revolution, Chinese lived and died by their class backgrounds. They boasted about ancestors who had starved to death. But if a…

— Jan Wong

“Caucasian laborers could not compete with the Chinese, could not live upon a handful of rice and work for a pittance, and found themselves…

— Woodrow Wilson

“I'm wondering whether I can explain," said Lee. "Where there is no likeness of experience it's very difficult. I understand you were not born…

— John Steinbeck

“That's not how you eat hot pot! That's some new-age Taiwanese thing. In Beijing, you don't mis the sauces." "Son, I'll say this the…

— Eddie Huang

“Moon grew up, lost weight and became a famous singer, which proves that there is no justice in the universe, or that indeed, there…

— Marilyn Chin

“To survive in China you must reveal nothing to others. Or it could be used against you … That’s why I’ve come to think the…

— Evan Osnos

“Unlike others who let it eat them up and took it to their graves, I refused to be that Chinese kid walking everywhere with…

— Eddie Huang

“Chinese people do business, do medicine, do painting. Not lazy like American people. We do torture. Best torture.”

— Amy Tan

“These same ABCs couldn't speak Chinese and didn't care---but you don't have shit without your native tongue. African slaves were forced by threat of…

— Eddie Huang

Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.

— Nancy Mairs

“One never thinks of China, but it is there all the time on the tips of your fingers and it makes your nose itchy;…

— Henry Miller

I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is…

— Jung Chang