Anchee Min

Do you know who Karl Marx is? He is this strange little man, long dead, who lived his narrow little life, and…

— Anchee Min

No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.

— Anchee Min

“Zabranjeni grad je pjesma u svojem najčistijem obliku. On je moj duhovni vrt gdje mogu leći među cvijeće i otpočinuti.”

— Anchee Min

If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.

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My mind swirled with memories of the life I had led. The constant struggle to keep up appearances, the pretenses, the smiles…

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“Vjetar pokazuje svoje tijelo kroz drhtavo lišće.”

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“Imi spuse ca era adevarat ca nici una dintre operele exemplare nu vorbea despre dragoste. I-am spus: Eu nu cred ca eroii…

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If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river.

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I think about giving up. I almost do.

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The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree

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My goal was to do anything that would lead to a job. I know that writing would not lead to a job.…

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When Chinese get together - what's buried stays buried. We don't even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago.

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“I led my schoolmates in collecting pennies. We wanted to donate the pennies to the starving children in America.”

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I understood that without English I would never get far, so my dream was to become a receptionist, and so I started…

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lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

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My parents lived likeas the neighbours described thema pair of chopsticks, always in harmony.

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When I first came to America, you know, I would look at the newsstands and see the women on the magazine covers.…

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my mother was taught the ch'an concept of happiness, which was to find satisfaction in small things. i was taught to appreciate…

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The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement,…

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There are a lot of things that immigrants, especially Chinese-Americans, want to share with their children, but there are a lot of…

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There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in…

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Of course I have the license to make up things, but I think a lot of what's written about China is misleading,…

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I was happy not to be in his place. He could command my death, but not his. But then, what kind of…

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To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.

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We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain…

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