159 Ethnic Quotes for You to Enjoy

There is a profound hypocrisy - and deep historical ignorance - when Europeans complain about the problems posed by the ethnic and religious minorities in their midst, for that is exactly what European colonial rule meant for peoples around the world. Martin Jacques

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Once you start listening to the comics, be they Jewish, Muslim, Italian, Filipino or whatever, the material often springs from the same source - the overbearing mom, the parents who want you to marry from within your community. That's why the 'Ethnic Show' works so well. Maz Jobrani

Mom You Listening Parents Whatever Community Once Muslim Marry Well Within Material Comics Springs Italian Source Same Often Want Ethnic Your Show Who Works Filipino Why Start Jewish

New York isn't segregated the way many American cities are, where there are specific ethnic neighborhoods that don't necessarily co-exist, or they co-exist but in a much separate sense. Mike D

Sense Way Neighborhoods Cities Segregated New American York American Cities New York Where Much Ethnic Separate Many Specific Necessarily

A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together. Mohsen Makhmalbaf

The lamest excuse that I get incessantly is, 'Oh, we're not going ethnic with that role,' so I can't go in for it, or I can't get the part, which is really stupid, because, in today's world, people look different. Morena Baccarin

Today People World Stupid Part Excuse Look Because Go Role Get Going Oh Different Which Really Ethnic Incessantly

My features are completely ethnic. Naomi Campbell

Features Ethnic

I don't think it's a good thing to have Christian states, Muslim states, or any kind of ethnic states. Norman Finkelstein

Good Christian Think States Muslim Kind Good Thing Any Ethnic Thing

I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict. Ori Gersht

Life Conflict My Life All My Life Part Ethnic Lived

Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled. Pankaj Mishra

Nationalism India Minorities Some Ethnic Many Rebelled Pakistan

Sport crosses party lines and ethnic lines. It occupies a greater realm, and it's all the more disappointing when sports figures turn out to be like everyone else. Philip Kerr

Sports Party Else Everyone Everyone Else Out Crosses More Disappointing Like Sport Greater Occupies Lines Turn Ethnic Realm Figures

I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm. Ram Shriram

Beautiful Time You Sky Will Weather Every Every Time Finally Would Would-Be Had Come Look California Because Said Coming Blue Blue Sky Move Preference Warm Ethnic Here

I collect many ethnic instruments, and as a guitarist, I'm usually able to play any sort of instrument - as long as it has strings. That's why I like to experiment with different sounds. Ramin Djawadi

Guitarist Long Experiment Strings Collect Able Like Instrument Instruments Sort Sounds Any Different Ethnic Different Sounds Many Why Play

Attempts by one ethnic group to exercise sovereignty over another are not fair. It doesn't matter if that ethnicity is Kurdish, Turkish, Arabic, Chaldean or whatever. Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Matter Whatever Group Arabic Attempts Over Fair Another Exercise Kurdish Sovereignty Not Fair Turkish Ethnic Ethnicity

Russia may well be willing to stop interfering in Eastern Ukraine in exchange for a degree of sanctions relief if it could be assured that ethnic Russians there would not face reprisals. Richard N. Haass

Degree Face Assured Ukraine Willing Relief Eastern Would Russia Russians Could Exchange Well May Stop Sanctions Ethnic Interfering

Being the house ethnic was destroying my life and my sense of myself, because I had been consigned to play every dusky maiden you have ever seen in your life in movies. Rita Moreno

Life Myself You My Life Seen Sense Every Destroying Maiden Had House Because Been Being Movies Ethnic Your Ever Play

Ballet Hispanico is a mixture of ethnic, ballet, social, jazz - you name it, it's doing it. The company has been going strong for more than 20 years, and you can see why: It may not be refined, but it's full of beans. Robert Gottlieb

We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too. Roger Ebert

White Action Stars Think Society Too Other Sidekick Way Over American African Where African-American Happening Movies Them Asian Might Asian-American Ethnic Action Movies Now Two

Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights. Ruth Rendell

Rights Women Important More Than Ethnic

My main interest in synthesizers when I was an older teenager was to escape from the spell of the 12-tone system or, in a more broad sense, the spell of the European modern-music system. That led me to explore towards electronic music and ethnic music. Ryuichi Sakamoto

Music Me Sense Older Spell Teenager Broad System More Main Towards Led Escape Interest Ethnic Explore European Electronic Electronic Music

Minority ethnic issues need to be mainstream issues. Sadiq Khan

Minority Mainstream Issues Ethnic Need

You couldn't escape the literary atmosphere in our home. I grew up as a Britisher. I played a protagonist of every nationality in stage adaptations of Shakespeare and Brecht. I graduated from Yale. When I moved to the U.S., I realized with some amount of surprise that I was seen as an ethnic actor. Satya Bhabha

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One could reasonably argue that the Turkish pogrom against the Armenians during World War I qualifies as a crime against humanity, as does the United States' ethnic cleansing of Native Americans. Sebastian Junger

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