Khaled Hosseini Quotes

I've been called Mr. Eddie's brother, but I don't trip on that. Whether you realize it or not, that's a sign of disrespect. If you address me, call me by my name. You can't lower me or make me feel uncomfortable.

That's my ultimate goal: to get people to say my name right.

We are all pleased when our names are pronounced and spelled correctly.

When someone shouts 'Skins' at you, its funny the first time. But after a hundred times, you think, 'I do have a name.'

Your name is the most important thing you own. Don't ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.

Listen how they say your name. If they can't say that right, there's no way they're going to know how to treat you proper, neither.

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.

I'm not a minority: I'm a majority of one. We all are. To call someone a minority, you give them baggage, of not being full, or not being seen as full. All of us need to be seen as full human beings.

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.

Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.

A people must have dignity and identity.

In France, I am just Madame Campbell. In Jamaica, nobody uses my title.

I'm very happy that people call me by my first name now. They seem to believe that I'm not just doing this job because my father did. I also hope I will be more successful than my father.

Now if anyone calls me Anthony, I usually don't respond.

I think people are more than their heritage or their skin colour or their name or how they grew up.

They turned to Angel. "We will call you Little One," the leader said, obviously deciding to dispense with the whole confusing name thing. "Okay," said Angel agreeably. "I'll call you Guy in a White Lab Coat." He frowned. "That can be his Indian name," I suggested.

Mercy is not a proper Indian name."..........."Rash Coyote Who Runs With Wolf. We could shorten it to Dinner Woman.

Well, I do not want to be tolerated, nor misnamed. I want to be recognized.

Quit calling me Grey. It makes me sound like I’m a boy. Like Dorian Gray.” “Dorian who?” I sighed. “Just think up something else. Plain old Nora works too, you know.” “Sure thing, Gumdrop.” I grimaced. “I take that back. Let’s stick with Grey.

Growing up,I came up with this name: I'ma Cablinasian.

Her father picks different names for her as they change locales, but he uses Miranda often, presumably because he knows how much it annoys her.

Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

Hey show some respect. They’re real people with names. Carla and Krissy” He frowned. “Or was it Missy?

I am Jewish. My real name is Chris Tuckenberg. A lot of people don't know about that.

I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, "No, I'm a Pacino. That's my name." I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she's adjusted so marvelously.