People
See also: Hui people, Uyghur people, Kazakhs, Dongxiang people, Kyrgyz people, Salar people, Tajiks of Xinjiang, Uzbeks, Bonan, Chinese Tatars, and Tibetan MuslimsRead more about this topic: Islam In China
Famous quotes containing the word people:
“So the people will pay the penalty for their kings’ presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“Ezra Pound still lives in a village and his world is a kind of village and people keep explaining things when they live in a village.... I have come not to mind if certain people live in villages and some of my friends still appear to live in villages and a village can be cozy as well as intuitive but must one really keep perpetually explaining and elucidating?”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“The people inside have no water
and are never allowed to touch.
They crack like macadam.
They are mute.
They do not cry help
except inside....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)