Bicultural Quotes & Sayings

When I was born I brought no joy, my father said he wanted a boy! — Rodney Dangerfield

The matted straw cover of the latrine was yanked away. The sun blinded me as I looked up at the dark outline of two young soldiers in tattered camouflage, their uniforms made for men bigger than they were. They each held an automatic weapon, an AK-47, and were leering down at me. I could see the two gold teeth of one of them as he grinned.
Gold-tooth reached down and grabbed my hair, yanking me up by it until he could get the other hand under my arm and pull me the rest of the way. I screamed in terror. He pulled me away from the pit as he and the others held their noses and laughed hysterically. One held each arm and dragged me to the river's edge. They tore off my loose cotton dress; I had no underwear on. After howling with laughter and firing guns in the air, they crudely touched my body. — Nick Hahn

What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right? — Bernhard Schlink

It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered. — Veronica Roth

Because I want to read your countenance - turn! — Charlotte Bronte

In Ugandan society a girl who had reached puberty was eligible for a family-arranged marriage. The groom would bring wealth to the bride's family in the form of cattle, goats, or land. My experience at the hands of Joseph Kony's murderers and rapists had made a mockery of this custom. I hated the idea, and my father understood. — Nick Hahn

Don't be afraid of opening the unknown new doors; if you see the Devil inside, just know how to reclose it tightly! We exist in life to discover; if there is no discovery, there is no life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society. — John Key

He who is ashamed would like to force the world not to look at him, not to notice his exposure. He would like to destroy the eyes of the world. — Erik Erikson

To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flames from wasting by repose. — Oliver Goldsmith

I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities. — Ziad Doueiri

A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing — Jhumpa Lahiri

I think I'm representing a new generation of Latinos - bilingual, bicultural people. — Genesis Rodriguez

I'm bicultural, and everyone sees me as a Latina, but in my head I see myself as both Latina and American. — Genesis Rodriguez

The speaker was good, I liked what he had to say. I had expected a dry recitation on how women should change their gender if they expected to advance in a man's world, since I wasn't about to grow a cock and balls this man gave me hope and inspiration. Women dominated the audience, not surprising since the average African man wouldn't support a speaker preaching gender equality. Africa was a continent with generational precedent for the alpha male, it was part of their culture, learned at an early age. This led to abuse on many levels. Women were expected to do the physical work, produce male babies and satisfy the sexual urgings of men. Urgings that in other societies would be called rape but in Africa were accepted as common practice. I understood this better than most. Pictures of the Kony boy-soldiers and their adult commander were burned into my memory. — Nick Hahn

Comfort is perennially important. Dance clothes are so comfortable and I try to find that in regular clothing as welling. — Stella Hudgens

She was right. After all, if she herself had wondered whether she was Indian enough
she, who had always been to me a sort of epitome of Indian
then who could be? Who could claim the sole right or way to an identity? — Tanuja Desai Hidier

The lost, the lonely, the bicultural misfits with a foot in two worlds and a place in neither. — Don Winslow