When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no chuming, no inside knowing of things. If she had chuming she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear.

There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.

I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with

Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh. -An-mei

Love is tricky. It is never mundane or daily. You can never get used to it. You have to walk with it, then let it walk with you. You can never balk. It moves you like the tide. It takes you out to sea, then lays you on the beach again. Today's struggling pain is the foundation for a certain stride through the heavens. You can run from it but you can never say no. It includes everyone.

Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.