159 Ethnic Quotes for You to Enjoy

My singing voice had rescued me from the scene I was in at school - I was an unpopular, bookish kid who had an indeterminate ethnic background. I became fascinated with women sopranos because they had a future that I didn't as a singer. Alexander Chee

Foot-binding, which started out as a fashionable impulse, became an expression of Han identity after the Mongols invaded China in 1279. The fact that it was only performed by Chinese women turned the practice into a kind of shorthand for ethnic pride. Amanda Foreman

I like the Victory rolls, beehive, pompadour - all of that stuff. It's just cool. And actually, with ethnic hair, oddly enough, it works so well because I don't have to tease my hair to get body. Andra Day

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My mother and I were part of a deal in the mid-'60s between Romania and Israel. Israel bought freedom for Romanian Jews for $2,000 a head. Ceausescu made a bundle in hard currency. He also 'sold' ethnic Germans to West Germany. Instead of going to Israel, my mother and I came to the United States. Andrei Codrescu

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I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments. Anton Yelchin

Environments Massive How Capitalist Ethnic Communities Fascinated Assimilated

The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations. Aristide Briand

Oppose Group Other More Could Outside League Contemplated Continents Itself Than Any Nations Organisation Ethnic Europe European

I wanted to explore expectations we have of people - what a woman should be, what a man should be. And if they don't meet our own interpretation of who they should be because of their gender, their background, their ethnic group, we then come to conclusions about them that are not accurate. Ayobami Adebayo

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Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.' B. D. Wong

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We must maximize our efforts to counter violent extremism, radicalization and recruitment in the United States and stop using xenophobia and ethnic stereotyping. Bennie Thompson

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Today's terrorists do not share a particular ethnic, educational or socioeconomic background. Bennie Thompson

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I don't do politics, I don't do religion, I don't do ethnic jokes. Bill Engvall

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I don't endorse people that bash judges based on his ethnic heritage. Bill Flores

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I've never used ethnic music as decoration for profit. Bill Laswell

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I intend to be the president of all citizens of Macedonia, regardless of their ethnic or religious background, regardless of their political standing. I shall not allow ethnic hatred and intolerance to undermine Macedonia's stability. Boris Trajkovski

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The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic opportunities, language and educational opportunities, religious rights, and political processes. Boris Trajkovski

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Even though China was a very closed country, they thought of themselves as the center of the world. It is an ethnic characteristic. After I went to Japan, I had a totally different view. The Japanese are always talking about what the Western world is doing. There is the anxious feeling of an outsider. Cai Guo-Qiang

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We're the only ethnic group that says, 'Hey, if you go to jail, it gives you street cred.' Charles Barkley

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'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not. Christopher Hitchens

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With so much racial tension and issues between the police and black and minority ethnic groups, there needs to be more in-depth conversations if we're going to fix anything. Clare-Hope Ashitey

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On September 11, the murders of World Trade Center employees and visitors took the lives of numerous nationalities, ethnic groups and religious followers. Cliff Stearns

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In America, we're trying to find a peaceful solution in the Middle East and we're not going to be divided along any lines, including religious lines, including ethnic backgrounds. Darrell Issa

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Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. Darren Aronofsky

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