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Top 25 Nikesh Shukla Quotes (2025 Update)

Nikesh Shukla Quote: “Here, my mother’s mother would stitch clothes behind a sewing machine with Turkish women who had only wanted from life the privilege of work. Some decades later I was rolling a mat out, as one rolls the carpet of gentrification over our ancestors’ footprints, onto the floor of a room of exercising white bodies.”

1. “Here, my mother’s mother would stitch clothes behind a sewing machine with Turkish women who had only wanted from life the privilege of work. Some decades later I was rolling a mat out, as one rolls the carpet of gentrification over our ancestors’ footprints, onto the floor of a room of exercising white bodies.”

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Nikesh Shukla Quote: “To be an immigrant, good or bad, is about straddling two homes, whilst knowing you don’t really belong to either.”

2. “To be an immigrant, good or bad, is about straddling two homes, whilst knowing you don’t really belong to either.”

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Nikesh Shukla Quote: “In 2013, 2.4 million heterosexual interactions on the Facebook dating app ‘Are You Interested?’ were analysed and showed that ‘all men except Asians9 preferred Asian women’. 10 ALL. The fetishisation of the Asian female body is highly problematic. Sexual submissiveness, sexual voracity, and voicelessness is a particularly tricky and damning combination.”

3. “In 2013, 2.4 million heterosexual interactions on the Facebook dating app ‘Are You Interested?’ were analysed and showed that ‘all men except Asians9 preferred Asian women’. 10 ALL. The fetishisation of the Asian female body is highly problematic. Sexual submissiveness, sexual voracity, and voicelessness is a particularly tricky and damning combination.”

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Nikesh Shukla Quote: “One of the many online arguments I’ve had about the importance if language, how language can hurt, has been about tea. Chai tea means tea tea. The number of times you see this on a menu makes you wonder why people can’t be bothered to do their research. Like naan bread too. Bread bread.”

4. “One of the many online arguments I’ve had about the importance if language, how language can hurt, has been about tea. Chai tea means tea tea. The number of times you see this on a menu makes you wonder why people can’t be bothered to do their research. Like naan bread too. Bread bread.”

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Nikesh Shukla Quote: “I do think it’s interesting that this idea of being a model minority is tied up with essentially being quiet,’ she says. ‘Just sitting back, not complaining about stuff, and getting on with making money. Being quiet is considered a really good quality.”

5. “I do think it’s interesting that this idea of being a model minority is tied up with essentially being quiet,’ she says. ‘Just sitting back, not complaining about stuff, and getting on with making money. Being quiet is considered a really good quality.”

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Nikesh Shukla Quote: “It’s a tree falling in a forest conundrum: if a white kid raps all the lyrics to ‘Gold Digger’ and there isn’t a black person around to hear it, is it still racist?”

6. “It’s a tree falling in a forest conundrum: if a white kid raps all the lyrics to ‘Gold Digger’ and there isn’t a black person around to hear it, is it still racist?”

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Nikesh Shukla Quote: “These themes are explored through fantasy figures such as wizards, giants and elves. At the same time, amongst the teachers and pupils at Hogwarts, there are very few people of colour and no clear explanation of why that might be. So a story that has so much to say about racism on an allegorical level at the same time depicts people of colour as marginal without exploring their marginalisation. Malorie.”

7. “These themes are explored through fantasy figures such as wizards, giants and elves. At the same time, amongst the teachers and pupils at Hogwarts, there are very few people of colour and no clear explanation of why that might be. So a story that has so much to say about racism on an allegorical level at the same time depicts people of colour as marginal without exploring their marginalisation. Malorie.”

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Nikesh Shukla Quote: “Integrate well. Move upwards in society. Be praised – until people worry that you’re doing too well, and then they remember that you’re foreign.”

8. “Integrate well. Move upwards in society. Be praised – until people worry that you’re doing too well, and then they remember that you’re foreign.”

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Nikesh Shukla Quote: “While ‘Rap Trax!’ recorded, Neel found some scrap paper and we started writing our first lyrics. Bandying about subject matter and title, we got stuck on the idea of ‘cool’, so my first rap song became ‘Pretty Cool’. It was a symbol of our confidence. We weren’t awesome cool or mega cool. We were only... pretty cool.”

9. “While ‘Rap Trax!’ recorded, Neel found some scrap paper and we started writing our first lyrics. Bandying about subject matter and title, we got stuck on the idea of ‘cool’, so my first rap song became ‘Pretty Cool’. It was a symbol of our confidence. We weren’t awesome cool or mega cool. We were only... pretty cool.”

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Nikesh Shukla Quote: “Fitting in, it turns out, is a very physical process. I have spent years in a battle with my body, trying to make it compliant to the needs of others. I have tried to shrink it as though that could shrink my difference. Am I more welcome if I take up less space?”

10. “Fitting in, it turns out, is a very physical process. I have spent years in a battle with my body, trying to make it compliant to the needs of others. I have tried to shrink it as though that could shrink my difference. Am I more welcome if I take up less space?”

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Nikesh Shukla Quote: “Yo, bredren, we be the illest,′ went my proclamation. ‘We be the dopest,’ Anand would follow. ‘Our tunes are going to be good,’ Nishant would finish with.”

11. “Yo, bredren, we be the illest,′ went my proclamation. ‘We be the dopest,’ Anand would follow. ‘Our tunes are going to be good,’ Nishant would finish with.”

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Nikesh Shukla Quote: “We laughed over our difference then spent years bonding over things that made us the same.”

12. “We laughed over our difference then spent years bonding over things that made us the same.”

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Nikesh Shukla Quote: “Racism in society often works through a divide and conquer strategy, more often than not it is also intertwined with classism as well as other forms of oppression. Structural racism can divide a community that would be stronger together, by keeping individual groups entrenched in their own class – in this case, caste discrimination.”

13. “Racism in society often works through a divide and conquer strategy, more often than not it is also intertwined with classism as well as other forms of oppression. Structural racism can divide a community that would be stronger together, by keeping individual groups entrenched in their own class – in this case, caste discrimination.”

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Nikesh Shukla Quote: “We’ve never really been split, never been cut in half, we’ve just been silent about how we’ve been empowered because we haven’t always felt it, have been too busy being good immigrants, not making a fuss, and quieting down when people felt uncomfortable.”

14. “We’ve never really been split, never been cut in half, we’ve just been silent about how we’ve been empowered because we haven’t always felt it, have been too busy being good immigrants, not making a fuss, and quieting down when people felt uncomfortable.”

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Nikesh Shukla Quote: “Advertising companies, big corporations, banks and politicians need to maintain this, to control the division of people through racism and shade, throwing shade of difference and indifference, good immigrant and bad immigrant, refugee and benefit scrounger.”

15. “Advertising companies, big corporations, banks and politicians need to maintain this, to control the division of people through racism and shade, throwing shade of difference and indifference, good immigrant and bad immigrant, refugee and benefit scrounger.”

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Nikesh Shukla Quote: “Where are you from?” usually bothers me, but tonight I note his brown skin, and I know it’s not the same thing as a white American asking me the same question. I note his Muslim name. His question is not an attack but an invitation, a cup of tea, from someone who also feels lonely in this country and is looking for a bit of home.”

16. “Where are you from?” usually bothers me, but tonight I note his brown skin, and I know it’s not the same thing as a white American asking me the same question. I note his Muslim name. His question is not an attack but an invitation, a cup of tea, from someone who also feels lonely in this country and is looking for a bit of home.”

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Nikesh Shukla Quote: “My mother is the same shade as Oprah or Maya. Some summers I have seen my big brother almost as brown as Idris but closer to Obama in the winter. Bob Marley was mixed, Jamaican and Celtic, same as me, his shade looks pale in some photos, sometimes much darker. You see, it all depends on the filter and the time of year, it all depends on the light, it all depends on the shade. It depends on what point people are trying to make, to advertise things, to sell you things, to make money.”

17. “My mother is the same shade as Oprah or Maya. Some summers I have seen my big brother almost as brown as Idris but closer to Obama in the winter. Bob Marley was mixed, Jamaican and Celtic, same as me, his shade looks pale in some photos, sometimes much darker. You see, it all depends on the filter and the time of year, it all depends on the light, it all depends on the shade. It depends on what point people are trying to make, to advertise things, to sell you things, to make money.”

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Nikesh Shukla Quote: “Who knew that after WWII, some 2,000 Chinese seamen in Liverpool who had helped in the war effort were deported ‘home’ without warning? This violation was so swift and hidden that for decades their British wives and families thought that they had simply been left.”

18. “Who knew that after WWII, some 2,000 Chinese seamen in Liverpool who had helped in the war effort were deported ‘home’ without warning? This violation was so swift and hidden that for decades their British wives and families thought that they had simply been left.”

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Nikesh Shukla Quote: “I had long since realised that if there was greatness in Britain, then it lay in its everyday citizens, and not in its institutions.”

19. “I had long since realised that if there was greatness in Britain, then it lay in its everyday citizens, and not in its institutions.”

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Nikesh Shukla Quote: “But I retreated into my own head, my own glass, and my own worries.”

20. “But I retreated into my own head, my own glass, and my own worries.”

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Nikesh Shukla Quote: “You must really like curry” is the kind of lazy, unimaginative racism I’d naively assumed people outgrew.”

21. “You must really like curry” is the kind of lazy, unimaginative racism I’d naively assumed people outgrew.”

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Nikesh Shukla Quote: “But my strained need to appease my colonized tongue keeps me stuck in this language. It’s the only language I know well, yet it still denies me my freedom.”

22. “But my strained need to appease my colonized tongue keeps me stuck in this language. It’s the only language I know well, yet it still denies me my freedom.”

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Nikesh Shukla Quote: “What happens to our sense of home when we’re not teenagers anymore? When where we call ‘home’ changes? It’s a big moment when we rename our childhood homes in our phone contacts to read ‘mum and dad’. When we call where we live now ‘home’.”

23. “What happens to our sense of home when we’re not teenagers anymore? When where we call ‘home’ changes? It’s a big moment when we rename our childhood homes in our phone contacts to read ‘mum and dad’. When we call where we live now ‘home’.”

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Nikesh Shukla Quote: “I learned to be who I am by approximating who others are.”

24. “I learned to be who I am by approximating who others are.”

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Nikesh Shukla Quote: “Sometimes I got angry with the singing chanting white kids and tried to hit them or throw things at them. As a result of this, as well as singing chanting white kids calling me a chink or a Jap and hurling allegations at me about the cleanliness of my knees, my world suddenly seemed to fill up with red-faced white adults shouting loudly at me that I needed to learn not to lose my temper when white kids were calling me a chink or a Jap.”

25. “Sometimes I got angry with the singing chanting white kids and tried to hit them or throw things at them. As a result of this, as well as singing chanting white kids calling me a chink or a Jap and hurling allegations at me about the cleanliness of my knees, my world suddenly seemed to fill up with red-faced white adults shouting loudly at me that I needed to learn not to lose my temper when white kids were calling me a chink or a Jap.”

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Nikesh Shukla Quote: “The question “Where are you from?” has punctured most days of my life, and has been both innocuous and frightening. “Where are you from?” usually means “How did you get here?” or the clearer: “You don’t belong here.”

26. “The question “Where are you from?” has punctured most days of my life, and has been both innocuous and frightening. “Where are you from?” usually means “How did you get here?” or the clearer: “You don’t belong here.”

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Nikesh Shukla Quote: “This is the absolute truth of grief. It is never linear and it is never proportionate or understandable. Especially to other people. It never happens when it should. It doesn’t seem to make sense to anyone else.”

27. “This is the absolute truth of grief. It is never linear and it is never proportionate or understandable. Especially to other people. It never happens when it should. It doesn’t seem to make sense to anyone else.”

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Nikesh Shukla Quote: “Half the time I want every single one of you as my kin, and half the time I want nothing to do with you. Perhaps this is the source of my loneliness: belonging and not belonging, always, to you.”

28. “Half the time I want every single one of you as my kin, and half the time I want nothing to do with you. Perhaps this is the source of my loneliness: belonging and not belonging, always, to you.”

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