Lulu Wang Quotes

I hate labels.

Wherever I go, people ask: 'What is she? What is she?' There has always been an agenda - they're excluding me or including me in something with that question. It is the first thing agents in Los Angeles ask me. And then I'd hear: 'You're not black enough, you're too black, you're Italian - no, you're Spanish.'

The greatness of Americans is that we are mosaic - we are diverse.

The first thing I am is a person. I am a woman. And I am part of a nation, the Indian nation. But people either relate to you as an Indian or as a woman. They relate to you as a category. A lot of people don't realize that I am not that different from everyone else.

Labels put people in boxes, and those boxes are shaped like coffins.

The Sneetches got really quite smart on that day. The day they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches. And no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches. That day, all the Sneetches forgot about stars and whether they had one, or not, upon thars.

That we can be e pluribus Unum - out of one, many

I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all Americans who believe in democracy. The civil rights movement thrives on unity and inclusion, not division and exclusion. My husband's struggle parallels that of the gay rights movement.

The beautiful thing about L.A. is that you have 50 countries in one county. Diversity brings power and muscle.

I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.

A week before shooting, they told me, You don't have the part, yet. We're still trying to find a handicapped kid who can act. Either that or we break your legs.

I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.

Equality and separation cannot exist in the same space.

Labels are for cans, not people.

It's a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they're different. It's very limiting.

Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.

All labels are offensive in some way.

I don't want to be limited or ghettoized in any way.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.

We are a diverse country, but we are one country. And we are at our best when we come together as Americans, not despite our differences, but in celebration of them.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.

As soon as you say that there is a community called, let's say, black Americans, you've immediately created a boundary line - who's in that group, who's outside that group.

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terrible intolerance.