Multicultural Quotes

“I stole a bit of a chopped vegetable and was about to put it in my mouth when Jae’s long fingers closed over my wrist. “What? You can’t eat this raw?”

“It’s bitter melon. You won’t like it.” He went into the fridge and came out with something that looked halfway familiar. “Here, leftover bao. There’s char siu inside.”

“The red pork stuff? Yeah, I like that. I thought it was Chinese.”

“It is. We also eat hamburgers and spaghetti.”
― Rhys Ford, Dirty Kiss

“It's a success story," said Chanu, exercising his shoulders. "But behind every story of immigration success there lies a deeper tragedy."
Kindly explain this tragedy."
I'm talking about the clash between Western values and our own. I'm talking about the struggle to assimilate and the need to preserve one's identity and heritage. I'm talking about children who don't know what their identity is. I'm talking about the feelings of alienation engendered by a society where racism is prevalent. I'm talking about the terrific struggle to preserve one's own sanity while striving to achieve the best for one's family. I'm talking--" p. 88”
― Monica Ali, Brick Lane

“We're all the same in the dark.”
― J.J. Murray, Renee and Jay

“There wasn't a shed of doubt in her mind that he'd fulfill her every sexual fantasy and them some.
But was a brief, hot affair worth losing his friendship?”
― Francis Ray, A Seductive Kiss

“Sinking, sinking, drinking water. When everyone in the village was fasting a long month,when not a grain, not a drop of water passed between the parched lips of any able-bodied man, woman or child over the age of ten, when the sun was hotter than the cooking pot and dusk was just a febrile wish, the hypocrite went down to the pond to duck his head, to dive and sink, to drink and sink a little lower. p. 105”
― Monica Ali, Brick Lane

“Not real estate, gadgets or cash, give me languages, give me cultures.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“Every corner of earth
has added to my flight,
erase any one community,
and you diminish my light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“I don't write on multiculturalism, I am multiculturalism, I'm the living specimen of a multicultural human from the future. Today I may be the anomaly, but tomorrow people like me will be the norm, and cultural exclusivity will be a deranged fringe practice, like witchcraft is today.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Saimin was inspired by Japanese ramen, Chinese mein, and Filipino pancit, and developed during Hawaiʻi's plantation era.
After a hard day's work, sugarcane and pineapple plantation laborers returned to their homes to prepare dinner. To save money, each family would bring an ingredient they could spare. They would throw all the ingredients into a pot and share the dish. Saimin is composed of ingredients taken from laborers of the early 1900's: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Hawaiian and Portuguese. During these communal meals, families and friends gathered to talk and share. Today, saimin is a local favorite in Hawaiʻi.”
― Feng Feng Hutchins, Plenty Saimin

“I exist for I dissolve in all.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“You don’t enter a culture, you disappear into it, be annihilated for others, and you come to life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“I opened my eyes and couldn't find a single precedent of post-national, post-religion, post-lingual, post-cultural existence, so I became the precedent.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Your name is your story — wear it with pride.”
― Uchenna Azonobi, My Name Is Who I Am

“You haven't even started living a multicultural life, like a proper human being, and you're obsessing with the multiverse!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“He’s beautiful. Beautiful, but seriously damaged.”
― Desiree Span, Interviewing Michael

“He had never wallowed in self-pity until he lost the two things he loved.”
― Desiree Span, Interviewing Michael

“He was in this deep hole he couldn’t pull himself out of. He was simply empty on the inside.”
― Desiree Span, Interviewing Michael

“Barefoot and shirtless. The perfect combo for anyone in need of visual man-candy.”
― Desiree Span, Interviewing Michael

“This woman wasn’t a suck-up—no, she was different.”
― Desiree Span

“Are you single?” he asked and took a bite as well. “As a matter of fact, I recently changed my Facebook status from it’s complicated to it’s very simple.”
― Desiree Span, Interviewing Michael

“She was more of a storm and lightning kind of gal, preferably with a little dramatic thunder to keep her on her toes.”
― Desiree Span, Interviewing Michael

“Mom was sick. It’s a disease. A horrible disease she couldn’t overcome, that took her life. You can’t blame her, and especially not yourself.”
― Desiree Span, Interviewing Michael

“The drink was exquisite, the music was good, and Michael... well, she had to admit he was just damn stimulating... in every sense of the word.”
― Desiree Span

“He was like a magnet; an irresistible force pulling at her core.”
― Desiree Span, Interviewing Michael

“His eyes, still locked on her hers, grew soft, and in that moment, she could have drowned in those beautiful golden-green pools.”
― Desiree Span, Interviewing Michael

“It’s okay, you know. To let someone in”
― Desiree Span, Interviewing Michael

“She was the one who triggered these delicious electric waves to run through him.”
― Desiree Span, Interviewing Michael

“He lost himself in her. His blood boiled, his skin burned, his arousal ached, and nothing had ever felt so good. It was heaven and hell all at once.”
― Desiree Span, Interviewing Michael

“For a fraction of a second, he felt happy, blissful even, until that taunting, dark voice in his head put him back in his place. She’s not for you to have!”
― Desiree Span, Interviewing Michael

“Simply do what you love, make music, regardless of the results.”
― Desiree Span, Interviewing Michael