Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston Quotes

The reason I want to remember this is because I know we'll never be able to do it again.

You cannot deport 110,000 people unless you have stopped seeing individuals. Of course, for such a thing to happen, there has to be a kind of acquiescence on the part of the victims, some submerged belief that this treatment is deserved, or at least allowable.

From that day on, pay of me yearned to be invisible. In a way, nothing would have been nicer than for no one to see me. Although I could not have defined it at the Tom me, I felt if attention were drawn to me, people would see what this girl had first responded to. They wouldn't see me, the would see the slanted - eye face, the Oriental.

When your mother and your father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you just want them to stop fighting?

I instinctively decided that I would prove that I wasn't different, that it should not be odd to hear me speaking English. From that day forward I lived with this double impulse:the urge to disappear and the desperate desire to be accepted

Now she wanted for me the same thing I thought I wanted. Acceptance, in her eyes, was simply another means for survival.