I'm wondering whether I can explain," said Lee. "Where there is no likeness of experience it's very difficult. I understand you were not born in America."
"No, in Ireland."
"And in a few years you can almost disappear; while I, who was born in Grass Valley, went to school and several years to the University of California, have no chance of mixing."
"If you cut your queue, dressed and talked like other people?"
"No. I tried it. To the so-called whites I was still a Chinese, but an untrustworthy one; and at the same time my Chinese friends steered clear of me. I had to give it up.

John Steinbeck

Tag: appearances chinese-american

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They said I looked like a foreign devil; they said I spoke like a foreign devil. I made mistakes in manners, and I didn't know delicacies that had grown up since my father left. They wouldn't have me. You can believe it or not - I'm less foreign here than I was in China.

John Steinbeck

Tag: chinese-american foreignness

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The crack in your heart allows light in. ~ GOOD FORTUNE page 238

Leslie Bratspis

Tag: compassion personal-growth life-lessons meditation synchronicity symbols chinese-american chinese-wisdom inner-wisdom visionary-fiction

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