Whenever I passed by a Chinese restaurant in a car, I'd joke to my friends, 'Oh yeah, my uncle owns that place.' — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
When I first moved from Shanghai when I was five, I just thought of myself as Chinese. — Jenny Zhang Chinese Copy Share Image
Our culture is bloodthirsty for stories about women in pain; we hunger for women to expose their traumas and to be rescued… — Jenny Zhang Culture Copy Share Image
I know I am not the first woman to ask this, but how can I be both damaged and loveable? How do… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
I seem to be drawn to these smaller forms, and I seem to be drawn to things that can be written and… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
I grew up in a Chinese American enclave where the person who lived down the street had literally lived down the street… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
“It wasn't fair I had to be me for as long as I lived while other people got to be other people.” — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
When it comes to love, maturity often gets a bad rap - second love is boring; it's practical. It's what our parents… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for granted, and I think… — Jenny Zhang Books Copy Share Image
Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, who founded Lenny Books together, also happen to have exquisite reading tastes - from obscure small press… — Jenny Zhang Books Copy Share Image
I like to keep a book underneath the pillow that I'm not sleeping on so I can reach over and grab it… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
Shanghai, the city where I was born and spent my first four and a half years. It's not necessarily the most pleasant… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
“These kids have death wishes. It's always the ones born with the right to live who want to die. These people have… — Jenny Zhang Death Copy Share Image
“Maybe we would grow apart, he would develop a personality that I would know nothing about, we would start our families, have… — Jenny Zhang Brother Copy Share Image
Asian American success is often presented as something of a horror - robotic, unfeeling machines psychotically hellbent on excelling, products of abusive… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
People who have very devastating lives sometimes have the most wild, avant-garde humor. It's like when you've seen it all and been… — Jenny Zhang Comedy Copy Share Image
As I got older, I realised that people saw me as other things - sometimes Korean, sometimes Japanese, sometimes just Asian. When… — Jenny Zhang Asian Copy Share Image
My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness that it stung all the more to still… — Jenny Zhang Education Copy Share Image
Faced with ostracization at school and confinement at home, I turned to karaoke. — Jenny Zhang Confinement Copy Share Image
That's what people expect: They don't want to read a slight novel. People don't want to waste their time on anything less… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
One of the founding tenets of racism: a society that will never allow white people to think that because they are white,… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
White people have always slipped in and out of the experiences of people of color and been praised extravagantly for it. — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
I'm surely not the only one to notice we employ metaphors to make sense of the news. I always like to take… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
While I was growing up in Flushing, Queens, we socialized exclusively with other Chinese immigrants. I was forbidden to make contact with… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
Poetry was my dirty little secret when I was a fiction writer at Iowa, and then fiction became my dirty little secret… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I'd get comments like, 'You should consider writing more… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
Michael Derrick Hudson is not the first person to slip into the identity of a person of color to give himself some… — Jenny Zhang First person Copy Share Image
The historical legacy of 'The Best American Poetry' is they've had very few editors who were not white. They've had very few… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
It's like a weird mindset to wake up and want to be wanted. Like, I want to be wanted so much already...… — Jenny Zhang Control Copy Share Image
If you were to make a quick judgment call on my intelligence and articulation when I first moved to the U.S. based… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
When I was a graduate student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for fiction writing, I felt both coveted and hated. My white… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person's worth. Your mother tongue, your motherland, your mother's values - these… — Jenny Zhang American dream Copy Share Image
From its very inception, Lenny Letter set out to create a supportive, positive, inclusive space on the Internet that does not shy… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
We lived in one of those half-basement apartments, and on our first night of being in America, someone reached through the grate… — Jenny Zhang America Copy Share Image
Even when I speak English to my parents, I'll say an English word differently to my Chinese parents and friends than I… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
Growing up, I had a face that people wanted to tell things to, and I grew up with adults who had so… — Jenny Zhang Chaos Copy Share Image
Once I decided I was happy with something, I'd try to send it off into the world, and either someone would want… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
It's weird for me to say I'm lucky when I can't go into a bookstore and have more than five choices if… — Jenny Zhang Asian american Copy Share Image
“[…] until we were living hour to hour, minute to minute, and even then, I still believed in my father, who insisted… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
“From that point on, I would refer to him as "your uncle" and he would mostly refer to me as "your aunt"… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
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