I Hotel Quotes

“Everyone’s got a version of the same story, or maybe there’s no such thing as the same story; it’s a different story every time.”
― Karen Tei Yamashita, I Hotel

“Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affair that properly concern them. --Paul Valery”
― Karen Tei Yamashita, I Hotel

“The number-one thing that was not allowed to attend at the Bandung conference was the white man. He couldn't come...And these people who came together didn't nuclear weapons, they didn't have jet planes, they didn't have all the heavy armaments that the white man has. But they had unity....

Malcolm X”
― Karen Tei Yamashita, I Hotel

“...Edmund listened to the president's speech and briefly interviewed him in the kitchen as he snuck out the back and up to a waiting helicopter on the roof to avoid the angry hubbub. Only Japanese Americans would go to so much trouble to avoid conflict.”
― Karen Tei Yamashita, I Hotel