#you

From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get advocacy for the oppressed but otherwise, when it comes to national civic identity, mainly silence. ↗

— Eric Liu

#advocacy #anchor #babies #civic #comes

I had heard so much negative talk about our generation, that we're slackers and young fogies, that I knew wasn't true of the people I know. ↗

— Eric Liu

#generation #had #heard #i #knew

Identity in America is complicated but it's also simple: it's about whom you identify with and who identifies with you. ↗

— Eric Liu

#also #america #complicated #identifies #identify

If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America. ↗

— Eric Liu

#america #carry #celebration #color #does

Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters. ↗

— Eric Liu

#affordable health care #appeal #care #describing #etc

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#chains #combat #get #going #hurt

You cannot mistake Bush's clarity of purpose. He believes in a story about freedom and opportunity that makes his followers feel like they aren't just ticking their days down but are part of something larger than themselves. ↗

— Eric Liu

#believes #bush #cannot #clarity #days

You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#doing #look #one thing #out #people

Being Asian in this business is something you have to consider, because sometimes people aren't as open. They'll say, I can't see you with a Caucasian person. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#because #being #business #caucasian #consider

I think you just have to appreciate who you are and hopefully they can see what a superhero is about. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#appreciate #hopefully #i #i think #just