Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.

I am emboldened, not cowed, by the words and actions of Trump and his circle. I believe many others are as well. Together we will stand in opposition. I'm not going anywhere, and I won't be silenced.

But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.

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.

My father told me, "Don't do anything that would bring shame to the family." I was always mindful of that. When I told him I wanted to pursue a career as an actor, my father said, "Look at what you see on television at the movies, is that what you want to be doing? Do you want to make a life out of that?" And I said, "Daddy, I'm going to change it".

Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.

It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.