"When you are a person who comes from a multicultural background it just means that you have more information coming in from the universe. And it's your task to figure out how it all integrates, figure out its order and its beauty. It's a harder, longer struggle."
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1989 interview in Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston edited by Paul Skenazy and Tera Martin (1998)
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