Ali Latifi

“Why South Asian actors could be funny or nerdy but never sexy, yet South Asian actresses had to be.”
― Aasif Mandvi, No Land's Man

“The blast wave that passed through my sister’s office doubtless passed through devout Muslims, atheist Muslims, gay Muslims, funny Muslims, and lovestruck Muslims—not to mention Pakistani Christians, Chinese engineers, American security contractors, and Indian Sikhs. What civilization, then, did the bomb target? And from what civilization did it originate?”
― Mohsin Hamid, Discontent and Its Civilizations

“Money had them under a spell. Once they spent the money on a problem, they never thought about it again.”
― Eddie Huang, Fresh Off the Boat

“Our civilizations do not cause us to clash. No, our clashing allows us to pretend we belong to civilizations.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Discontent and Its Civilizations