Amy Chua > Quotes

“You know what my eight-year-old daughter said to me the other day, Callaghan?' asked Gong. 'She was crying. She said someone called her a Jap. And you know what my first reaction was? How dare they mistake my daughter for a fucking Jap. Now is that a healthy way to think? But that's what this country does. Not e pluribus unum, but divide and conquer. Italians, Greeks, Mexican, Chinese, Japanese, you name it. Turn them all against each other, and everyone against the Blacks. Now it's the Japs' turn, but it will be some other group next- maybe us again.”
― Amy Chua, The Golden Gate

“Right- we're the good Orientals now. But I still can't buy a house outside Chinatown. That's 'all men are created equal' for you.”
― Amy Chua, The Golden Gate

“It's an invariable rule: the younger you are, the more you know, and the less everyone else knows.”
― Amy Chua