93 Quotes by Jenny Zhang

Michael Derrick Hudson is not the first person to slip into the identity of a person of color to give himself some perceived advantage. He can slip back into his life and not walk around in this world as a person of color who endures racism.

I grew up in a Chinese American enclave where the person who lived down the street had literally lived down the street from my mother in Shanghai.

The historical legacy of 'The Best American Poetry' is they've had very few editors who were not white. They've had very few instances where they've selected poems by non-white poets.

I wish it wasn't so natural for me to dwell on the past.

When I first moved from Shanghai when I was five, I just thought of myself as Chinese.

As a child, I would go days without speaking, and then suddenly I would scream until everyone was looking at me.

I really had to develop a core. I had to figure out, at my core as a writer, what did I value? What was I about? And I had to love it and take pleasure in it.

If you were to make a quick judgment call on my intelligence and articulation when I first moved to the U.S. based on my speaking skills, it would be very low.

We're not the best about knowing what's the most interesting about ourselves.