North Carolina precinct chairman and GOP executive committee member Don Yelton thinks his state's new voting restrictions are just fine.

If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

Indian culture is essentially much more of a we culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes.

Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.

If you choose to be a Muslim then you believe that it is on some level wrong to show the image of the Prophet Muhammad.

I thought [when I was 16] my days were just going to be spent hanging out on a beach and my girlfriend was going to be Miss Teen USA and my best friend will be a dolphin.

I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques.

When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.

People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

It's an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.

Kiss me twice, I am schizophrenic .. Kiss me ten times, I am obsessive!

They blew out a breath and did the thing all heroes must do—they took that terrifying first step.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

You must be ready to give up even the most attractive ideas when experiment shows them to be wrong.

My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy.

Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're real quite lucky.

The best food I've ever eaten in my life has come from the poorest communities.

I used to go to the school folk club with my songs when I was only 13 or so and say "this is a traditional folk song" and sing it with a bad Irish accent to disguise the real source.

I'll miss everyone on Dallas so much, but I have a wonderful career ahead of me. I can feel it.

The next time someone is critical of you, just take a moment to consider their life. Then smile to yourself.