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I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right. ”
I'm insatiably curious about human nature. ”
Telling your story is transformative. For both the storyteller and their audience, a new bridge to understanding is created. ”
There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers. ”
Racial bias does exist, and until we can all admit its existence and become introspective as to whether our own personal biases are impacting how we deal with others, there will be no change. ”
When I started acting, I hoped I could make some kind of positive contribution to this world. When I get a letter from some kid in Nebraska saying that, prior to Han, nobody wanted to be his friend because Asians weren't cool if they weren't into martial arts - Now he's accepted and recognized as a human being. That's pretty awesome, right? ”
We should not underestimate that: the Chinese people's ignorance. Thousands of years of despotism had been such a poison that their understanding of modern politics is even inferior to that of the black slaves and other immigrants. ”
For forty years, I have devoted myself to the cause of the people's revolution with but one aim in view - the elevation of China to a position of freedom and equality among the nations. ”
We say that a group united and developed in the royal way, by forces of nature, is a race; a group united and developed by way of might, by human forces, is a state. This, then, is the difference between a race or nationality and a state. ”
Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek. ”