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Chinese Quotes by Amy Tan
- I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?
- And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood.
- Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to 90 percent. Some…
- I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.
- And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the…
- Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!
- People there only dream that it is China, because if you are Chinese you can never let go of China in your mind.
- I am an American, steeped in American values. But I know on an emotional level what it means to be of the Chinese culture.
- Chinese artists have been subversive over thousands of years, taking what they think of the government and embedding it in their art. There might be…
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