Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.
Maya LinThe only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.
Maya LinI probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.
Maya LinI like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter how many people are present
Maya LinI saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode. Interest in the land and concern about how we are polluting the air and water of the planet are what make me want to travel back in geologic time-to witness the shaping of the earth before man.
Maya Lin