I have two passions in my life. One is to raise the awareness of the internment of Japanese-American citizens. My other passion is the theater.

If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.

The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.

My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories.

Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.

People forget that stereotypes aren’t bad because they are always untrue. Stereotypes are bad because they are not always true. If we allow ourselves to judge another based on a stereotype, we have allowed a gross generalization to replace our own thinking.

Unfriending me when I didn’t even know we were friends? It’s like breaking wind when you’re home alone. If I can’t smell you, knock yourself out.