OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

To fly, we must have resistance.