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Jenny Zhang Quotes
Jenny Zhang
Chinese
Actress
Born:
Jun 22
,
1987
First
Love
Me
People
Writing
You
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While I was growing up in Flushing, Queens, we socialized exclusively with other Chinese immigrants. I was forbidden to make contact with nonapproved, non-Chinese peers outside school. That was fine with me.
Jenny Zhang
Me
School
Other
Peers
Immigrants
Fine
Outside
Contact
Forbidden
Make
Queens
Up
While
Chinese
Growing
Growing Up
Socialized
Does self-acceptance ultimately require another person, or is there a kind of love that does not dabble in the dream of a perfect twinship?
Jenny Zhang
Love
Kind
Dream
Perfect
Self-Acceptance
Another
Does
Ultimately
Person
Require
Dabble
Visibility doesn't always equal freedom.
Jenny Zhang
Freedom
Visibility
Equal
Always
I'm surely not the only one to notice we employ metaphors to make sense of the news. I always like to take note of who hides their origins and who shows them off.
Jenny Zhang
News
Sense
Hides
Only
Take
Like
Employ
Make
Surely
Always
Metaphors
Off
Note
Them
Notice
Who
Shows
Origins
How do we form a coalition of resistance without obliterating our differences? Not all lives matter, and we are not all the same immigrants.
Jenny Zhang
Matter
Differences
Our
Immigrants
Without
How
Same
Form
Coalition
Lives
Resistance
I'm drawn to the figure of the ungrateful subaltern as a trope in literature. In real life, it is often dangerous to demand more.
Jenny Zhang
Life
Dangerous
Real Life
Ungrateful
Drawn
More
Demand
Real
Often
Literature
Figure
I still catch myself trying to become the object someone imagines me to be, but then there are other times, when I am free, when I am fluent, when I am unimaginable, that I start to feel like somewhere out there is the decolonized love for me, somewhere out there, there is a love that doesn't let any of us be so lonely.
Jenny Zhang
Love
Myself
Me
Free
Lonely
Somewhere
Become
Other
Fluent
Out
Object
Someone
Catch
Feel
Like
Am
Still
Times
Trying
Any
Then
Us
Unimaginable
Start
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