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No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family. ”
There are a lot of things that immigrants, especially Chinese-Americans, want to share with their children, but there are a lot of things they don't want to share. ”
The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me. ”
A writer's main tool is his memory - his own memory, the collective memory of his people. And the strongest memory is the one that is created by a wound to the heart. ”
I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event. ”
I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency. ”
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. ”
I have fond memories of my kabaddi exploits at Lawrence School. I also enjoyed tennis and swimming. ”
In 2012, I received a phone call from the family of Arsala Rahmani, the Afghan senator with whom I'd become friendly. That morning, a gunman had pulled up alongside Rahmani's vehicle, idling in a crowded intersection, and shot him point blank. ”
We can help families buy their homes and invest in their educations. ”