Merle Woo quotes

“Most of the time when "universal" is used, it's just a euphamism for "white"; white themes, white significance, white culture.”
-- Merle Woo

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“Until we can all present ourselves to the world in our completeness, as fully and beautifully as we see ourselves naked in our bedrooms, we are not free.”
-- Merle Woo

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“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.”

“White in the moon the long road lies.”

“The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.”

“A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.”

Source : Abba Eban (1969). “My people: the story of the Jews”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

“Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.”

“The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

“Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.”

Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă ("Nationality in Art")". Naţionalitatea în artă ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.

“In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.”

“I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.”

Source : "Learning How To Be King". Interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, www.nytimes.com. February 6, 2000.