“No matter how talented Richie was or how much shit he talked about what he could do, deep down he just didn't believe it'd happen. He was living day to day: you talk about your dreams, you boast ab...”

“Every few months or so at home, Pops had to have Taiwanese Mian. Not the Dan-Dan Mian you get at Szechuan restaurants or in Fuchsia Dunlops book, but Taiwanese Dan-Dan. The trademark of ours is the...”

“People ask me what my greatest strengths are and I say perspective. The best way to get that is to meet people that are polar opposites; you learn the most from them. There are pieces of you that a...”

“We play into the definitions and stereotypes others impose on us and accept the model-minority myth, thinking it's positive, but it's a trap just like any stereotype. They put a piece of model-mino...”

“There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways. Food is a lot more than restaurants.”

“For me, juicing isn't about binging and cleansing; I try to incorporate it into a balanced diet.”

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It aint no disgrace to be po...”

“Youve changed me forever. And Ill never forget you.”

“Eduardo Galeano notes that America was conquered, but not discovered, that the men who arrived with a religion to impose and dreams of gold never really knew where they were, and that this discover...”

“Fight everyday for a better life.”

“You broke the chain, Luna. Of all his victims, you were the only one that ever walked away and he hasnt forgotten.”

“Loneliness can either kill you or teach you depending on you being either a fighter or a survivor”

“They might be talking in perfect latin tongue and without warning begin to talk in perfect anglo tongue and keep it up like that, alternating between a thing that believes itself to be perfect and ...”

“With all this snow, with the sun not there, with the cold and dreariness, this place doesn't look like my America, doesn't even look real. It's like we are in a terrible story, like we're in the cr...”