Chinese Quote by Yiyun Li

Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty,…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.

— Philip Johnson

In China, your freedom is always limited, but this limitation applies to almost everyone. If someone does injustice to you, though, you have to…

— Yiyun Li

I would never describe a cloud as 'fluffy'—in Chinese or in English.

— Yiyun Li

On the mission I brought a flag from China, I brought the stone sculpture from Hong Kong, and I brought a scroll from Taiwan.…

— Leroy Chiao

“Tradition is not good simply because it is tradition. It is for what it has given us and only so long as an alternative…

— Friedrich A. Hayek

I think that voodoo as a spiritual tradition has been demonized for so long in popular culture. I wanted to write against that and…

— Jesmyn Ward

Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen that is…

— Alexander Gardner

We have years of tradition in lucha libre in Mexico.

— Alberto Del Rio

“Don’t be controlled by the tradition of men”

— Sunday Adelaja

The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought…

— Havelock Ellis