Eric Chow

“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
― Bruce Lee

“A work of myriad communications, I learned to speak to the men not with my tongue, which was useless there, but with smiles, hand gestures, even silences, hesitations. I made out people, verbs, abstractions, ideas with my fingers, my arms, and by drawing in the dirt.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“It taught me that it is easier to be an insider as an outsider than to be an outsider as an insider. If a white guy chooses to immerse himself in hip-hop culture and only hang out with black people, black people will say, “Cool, white guy. Do what you need to do.” If a black guy chooses to button up his blackness to live among white people and play lots of golf, white people will say, “Fine. I like Brian. He’s safe.” But try being a black person who immerses himself in white culture while still living in the black community. Try being a white person who adopts the trappings of black culture while still living in the white community.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“That, and so many other smaller incidents in my life, made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people. I”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood