Lucy Liu Quotes

Nothing in the world causes more problems than concepts of ethnic virtue. It's irrelevant.

In England, I've never really had a problem with racism.

Racism is about education. Racism is ignorance.

People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.

No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

I would like to share with you my plan to destroy America…. I would invest in ethnic identity and victimology. I would get them to think that their lack of success was only the fault of the majority. I would start a grievance industry.

I hate to tell you, but racism is alive and well in a lot of parts of the world.

We live in a society that wants to label you with a color, sexuality, religion, or ethnicity. It divides us, but it also allows us to find pride in our identity.

It's a shame, racism still exists.

When people today say 'racism,' they mean it's a nationalism they don't like. Racialism used to be a good thing, a looking-out for what was best for one group... Israel comes out of that 19th-century idea of nationalism. Many Arab states also have preferences. It's fundamentally unfair to decide that one is racism and the others aren't.

I have lived with a lot of racism in Spain. Unfortunately, I have had to learn to deal with it.

There is no racism in Italy.

When you're walking down a street and you are a brown-skinned person or you're a person that lives in an immigrant community, there's no differentiating on - solely on the basis of what you look like. They don't walk down the street saying, hi, I'm an immigrant; I'm here legally or not.

When we look at that jingoism and the sexism and the racism and the homophobia, that's not who we are, and that's not the country that I want my daughter to grow up in.

As a child growing up in San Francisco in the 1950s, I sometimes met insults when I ventured outside of Chinatown or my neighborhood. I have even been spat on and threatened with a knife. I could have let my anger fester until it became hate. However, I realized they were isolated incidents, and I simply got on with my life.

Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida.

It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.

It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

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

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

There's a lot of racism still alive and still active.

The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.