Ceremony Quote by Iris Chang

There's a reason why the cultures of so many Chinatowns around the world in some ways are more Chinese. They've held onto older Chinese…

— Lulu Wang

Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a…

— Tadashi Yanai

“From this one act, many other laws were passed to make life difficult for the Chinese who were here - even if they'd been…

— Lisa See

You wouldn't think such a place as San Francisco could exist. The wonderful sunlight there, the hills, the great bridges, the Pacific at your…

— Dylan Thomas

San Francisco is one of the great cultural plateaus of the world - one of the really urbane communities in the United States -…

— Duke Ellington

“After the Second World War, San Francisco was the main point of re-entry for sailors returning from the Pacific. Out at sea, many of…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was…

— Iris Chang

During the tour of 'Circulations,' we spent a lot of time in Canadian Chinatowns. I was fascinated by the idea that you can cross…

— Robert Lepage

There was an immediate connection with the Bay Area from when I first came out years ago. Somehow, I always knew there would be.…

— Bonobo

As a person of color from the South, San Francisco was the first city that really made me feel like an other.

— Barry Jenkins

My parents came to San Francisco when they were probably 19 or 20, in the mid-'60s.

— Jon M. Chu

It is a Chinese tradition that everyone has to be in everyone else's life.

— Yiyun Li