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Top 20 Grace D. Li Quotes (2024 Update)

Grace D. Li Quote: “Once, he had thought diaspora was loss, longing, all the empty spaces in him filled with want... But diaspora was this, too: two cultures that could both be his, history that was waiting to be made.”

1. “Once, he had thought diaspora was loss, longing, all the empty spaces in him filled with want... But diaspora was this, too: two cultures that could both be his, history that was waiting to be made.”

— Grace D. Li

Grace D. Li Quote: “Careful,” Irene said. “Museums never like to grapple with their history of colonialism. If you remove everything that was looted, then what’s left?”

2. “Careful,” Irene said. “Museums never like to grapple with their history of colonialism. If you remove everything that was looted, then what’s left?”

— Grace D. Li

Grace D. Li Quote: “For so long, the past had been a wound still open. Now he could run his finger along the mark those years had left. Scars were nothing but tissue, keratin, a reminder of what the body could endure.”

3. “For so long, the past had been a wound still open. Now he could run his finger along the mark those years had left. Scars were nothing but tissue, keratin, a reminder of what the body could endure.”

— Grace D. Li

Grace D. Li Quote: “Art belongs to the creator,” Will said, his voice soft, “not the conqueror. No matter what the law says, or what treaties are signed. For too long, museums have held on to art that isn’t theirs to keep, bought more because they know they can.”

4. “Art belongs to the creator,” Will said, his voice soft, “not the conqueror. No matter what the law says, or what treaties are signed. For too long, museums have held on to art that isn’t theirs to keep, bought more because they know they can.”

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Grace D. Li Quote: “I want to think that I’m Chinese and American both, but depending on the country, I feel like I’m not enough of either.”

5. “I want to think that I’m Chinese and American both, but depending on the country, I feel like I’m not enough of either.”

— Grace D. Li

Grace D. Li Quote: “Art was many things, but in the end it was a question asked: What do you want to be remembered for?”

6. “Art was many things, but in the end it was a question asked: What do you want to be remembered for?”

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Grace D. Li Quote: “This was how it always went. Museums overlooked colonialism, conquest, a history of blood, until it was laid in front of them, until violence was met with violence.”

7. “This was how it always went. Museums overlooked colonialism, conquest, a history of blood, until it was laid in front of them, until violence was met with violence.”

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Grace D. Li Quote: “They had been flirting earlier – for fun, for no real reason other than that they could – but now the night pressed down on them, soft and serious. Stockholm, in the low light, was a beginning. What would happen if they pulled this off?”

8. “They had been flirting earlier – for fun, for no real reason other than that they could – but now the night pressed down on them, soft and serious. Stockholm, in the low light, was a beginning. What would happen if they pulled this off?”

— Grace D. Li

Grace D. Li Quote: “Art belongs to the creator,” Will said, his voice soft, “not the conqueror.”

9. “Art belongs to the creator,” Will said, his voice soft, “not the conqueror.”

— Grace D. Li

Grace D. Li Quote: “But Will couldn’t help but feel like this was his responsibility. He had gotten them into this impossible situation. He would have to get them out.”

10. “But Will couldn’t help but feel like this was his responsibility. He had gotten them into this impossible situation. He would have to get them out.”

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Grace D. Li Quote: “She would sit at her desk and drink free, expensive cold brew, write code that would disappear into the mouth of an ever-expanding corporate giant.”

11. “She would sit at her desk and drink free, expensive cold brew, write code that would disappear into the mouth of an ever-expanding corporate giant.”

— Grace D. Li

Grace D. Li Quote: “She could never be Chinese enough for China. She could never be American enough for here.”

12. “She could never be Chinese enough for China. She could never be American enough for here.”

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Grace D. Li Quote: “We’re children of the diaspora,” Will said. He had grown up in the US, knew that no matter how much he wanted it to be, China would never be home to him. “All we’ve ever known is loss.”

13. “We’re children of the diaspora,” Will said. He had grown up in the US, knew that no matter how much he wanted it to be, China would never be home to him. “All we’ve ever known is loss.”

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Grace D. Li Quote: “For all that people in power claim to care about looting, it doesn’t seem to matter when it’s museums doing it.”

14. “For all that people in power claim to care about looting, it doesn’t seem to matter when it’s museums doing it.”

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Grace D. Li Quote: “It went like this: Irene had spent her whole life being measured against her brother. It hadn’t mattered at first, because why would it? She had done everything he had and more, felt a fierce, certain pride in doing so.”

15. “It went like this: Irene had spent her whole life being measured against her brother. It hadn’t mattered at first, because why would it? She had done everything he had and more, felt a fierce, certain pride in doing so.”

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Grace D. Li Quote: “Alex,” Irene said, and it was a sigh. She was tired of coders who thought the world spun around Silicon Valley, tired of this girl who looked at her as though she knew everything there was to know already. “Can we work together this one time?”

16. “Alex,” Irene said, and it was a sigh. She was tired of coders who thought the world spun around Silicon Valley, tired of this girl who looked at her as though she knew everything there was to know already. “Can we work together this one time?”

— Grace D. Li

Grace D. Li Quote: “Art could be beauty, but it was also power.”

17. “Art could be beauty, but it was also power.”

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Grace D. Li Quote: “How to make this life their own, how to love a country that had never belonged to them.”

18. “How to make this life their own, how to love a country that had never belonged to them.”

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Grace D. Li Quote: “Her family had survived in New York for two generations, despite gentrification and rising rent prices and a healthcare system that was never kind to the self-employed.”

19. “Her family had survived in New York for two generations, despite gentrification and rising rent prices and a healthcare system that was never kind to the self-employed.”

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Grace D. Li Quote: “Income, prestige, everything that meant certainty when you had left all that you knew behind.”

20. “Income, prestige, everything that meant certainty when you had left all that you knew behind.”

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Grace D. Li Quote: “She had never liked anything she did not excel at.”

21. “She had never liked anything she did not excel at.”

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Grace D. Li Quote: “Paris and its decadence would be familiar to those who had grown up in the heart of Beijing, and there was more left to take. Still, it didn’t seem wise to linger.”

22. “Paris and its decadence would be familiar to those who had grown up in the heart of Beijing, and there was more left to take. Still, it didn’t seem wise to linger.”

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Grace D. Li Quote: “Will had felt that loss, had recognized in it something of himself. Going to China, those few summers that he did, was the only time he felt found. Loss was the hesitation in his voice when he spoke his mother tongue, the myths he did not know, a childhood that felt so vast and alien from his parents’ that he did not know how to cross it.”

23. “Will had felt that loss, had recognized in it something of himself. Going to China, those few summers that he did, was the only time he felt found. Loss was the hesitation in his voice when he spoke his mother tongue, the myths he did not know, a childhood that felt so vast and alien from his parents’ that he did not know how to cross it.”

— Grace D. Li

Grace D. Li Quote: “It was always like this, art changing hands when it shouldn’t, cultures searching for what had been lost. How could they find their lost art – how could they ever get it back – when museums were not willing to speak of where their pieces came from?”

24. “It was always like this, art changing hands when it shouldn’t, cultures searching for what had been lost. How could they find their lost art – how could they ever get it back – when museums were not willing to speak of where their pieces came from?”

— Grace D. Li

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