{"quotes":[{"text":"The unity of Nigeria will only come if we overcome and overgrow tribe, materialism and selfish human nature.","author":"Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha","tags":["2014ilb","bringbackourgirls","ethnicity","ifeanyi-enoch-onuoha","inspiration","leadership","life-lessons","materialism","motivation","nature","nigeria","nigerian","society","tribe","world-peace"],"id":2245,"author_id":"Ifeanyi+Enoch+Onuoha"},{"text":"A rainbow looks good because the colours demonstrate restrain. Otherwise it would be an ugly blob.","author":"Arindam Mukherjee","tags":["diversity","ethnicity","globalization","plurality"],"id":3243,"author_id":"Arindam+Mukherjee"},{"text":"The ultimate truth is mystical truth, the ultimate reality is sacred chaos.","author":"Muzwot","tags":["activism","acyhetypes","anthropology","antropocene","biocentricism","celticism","dissent","eccentricism","ethnicity","ethnology","iconography","indigenous","mythology","paganism","paraphychology","phchophsical","phenomenology","symbology","transpersonal"],"id":22159,"author_id":"Muzwot"},{"text":"The ladies in her classes loved to speak to Caridad in broken Spanish, to show her they were comfortable with her ethnicity despite the paleness of their skin and the wealth of their husbands.","author":"Roxane Gay","tags":["ethnicity","wealth"],"id":34858,"author_id":"Roxane+Gay"},{"text":"The races are like America's children. White people are the firstborn, so they were Dad's favorite. Black people are the second kids, the abused ones, so they still hate Dad. Latinos are the third, caught in the middle and always trying to make peace between the other siblings. Asians are the youngest, and get good marks in school, but basically are just trying to keep their heads down and not get involved. And Native Americans are the old uncle who owns a house and everyone else in the family was like, 'He's not using that! Let's move in!","author":"Colin Quinn","tags":["america","american-culture","american-history","americans","ethnic-stereotypes","ethnicity","race","racial-prejudice","racism","racism-and-culture","racism-in-america","stereotypes","stereotyping","u-s-culture"],"id":52776,"author_id":"Colin+Quinn"},{"text":"Conversely, the red plant itself burns a brighter red when set off by the green than when it grows among its peers. In the bed I always reserved for poinsettia seedlings, there was little to distinguish one plant from its neighbours. My poinsettia did not turn scarlet until I planted it in new surroundings. Colour is not something one has, colour is bestowed on one by others.","author":"Arthur Japin","tags":["colour","ethnicity","poinsettia","race"],"id":53235,"author_id":"Arthur+Japin"},{"text":"I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a 'label' than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught.","author":"Erin Gruwell","tags":["ethnicity","labels","perspective","pride","race"],"id":58944,"author_id":"Erin+Gruwell"},{"text":"I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.","author":"Ken Livingstone","tags":["people","see","ethnicity "],"id":63392,"author_id":"Ken+Livingstone"},{"text":"The world citizen is a small leaf on the giant tree of life. They do not see a difference between the branch they were born on and the remaining branches on the tree, because they understand well that we are are all connected to the same roots. The world citizen sees each section of the world as part of their arm, leg, eyes, and heart. They do not class, contain or separate themselves or their identity by ethnicity or religion -- because they see their existence as a small part of a greater whole. When asked about their religion, the world citizen simply replies: 'My heart.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["cultural-identity","ethnicity","heart","peace","relgion","religion","suzy-kassem","universe","world-citizen","world-citizenship"],"id":64308,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"My mom and dad refused to believe that people who had grown up together in peace and friendship, had gone to the same schools, spoken the same language, and listened to the same music, could overnight be blinded by ethnic hatred and start to brutally kill one another. They simply didn't accept as true that less than two years of a multiparty system and competition for power could poison people's brains so much.","author":"Savo Heleta","tags":["ethnicity","friendship","peace","politics","power","war"],"id":67514,"author_id":"Savo+Heleta"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":31,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}