I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child. - Amy Tan

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There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

Amy Tan

I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child.

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Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear?

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With hope, a mind is always free.

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Love is tricky. It is never mundane or daily. You can never get used to it. You have to walk with it, then let it walk with you. You can never balk. It moves you like the tide. It takes you out to sea, then lays you on the beach again. Today's struggling pain is the foundation for a certain stride through the heavens. You can run from it but you can never say no. It includes everyone.

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He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: 'You speak,' he said, 'the language of shooting stars, more surprising than sunrise, more brilliant than the sun, as brief as sunset. I want to follow its trail to eternity.

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My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.

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