Gene Luen Yang Quotes

My experience of Chinese culture is indirect, through echoes. When I approach the cashier at my local Chinese supermarket, they switch to English before I've even said a word. They somehow know that I'm not quite Chinese enough.

Gene Luen Yang

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: chinese
  • Birth: August 9, 1973

Topics

CultureExperienceEnoughKnowSaid

The press have given me affairs I've never had and killed a few I did have. After a while, you learn.

Joanna Lumley

MeLearnYouNeverPressDid

We developed simple test tools to optimize imaging parameters. No company was interested in our idea.

John Cameron

SimpleToolsTestCompanyIdeaOur

The game of football has been like my best friend.

Robert Mathis

FriendBestFootballGameBeenLike

All the beasts in Howling Forest were safe in their caves, nests, and burrows.

Michael Ende

ForestSafeBeastsCavesWere

I don't relate to that angst-y kid who hates their parents because they were horrible. It's just not my life and it's not the life of a lot of my friends.

Ana Ortiz

LifeParentsMy LifeFriendsKid

More often than not, whenever gossip has been written about me, the gossip is more interesting than the reality. I know some public figures hate gossip, but personally I like it because it makes my life sound more glamorous and interesting than it really is.

Moby

LifeHateMeRealityMy LifeGossip

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

Don Marquis

ProgressRaceHumanObstacleChief

I think everyone should own six guns, even though I don't own any.

Colin Quinn

ThinkEveryoneGunsOwnSixEven

If there can be three certain things in life, instead of two, it might be death, taxes, and data.

Clara Shih

LifeDeathDataThreeTwoTaxes

Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.

Annie Lennox

GreatMeMotherhoodStartedIdentify

I've always said that the more coordinated the efforts of the international community are, the better it will be for democracy in Burma.

Aung San Suu Kyi

CommunityDemocracyBetterSaidWill

Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

LoveRememberLookWhomI Remember

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