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“Those who only look back at the past are certain to miss their future.”

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“Identity confusion is defined by the SCID-D as a subjective feeling of uncertainty, puzzlement, or conflict about one's own identity. Patients who report histories of childhood trauma characteristically describe themes of ongoing inner struggle regarding their identity; of inner battles for survival; or other images of anger, conflict, and violence. P13”

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Book:Interviewer's Guide to the Structured Clinical Interview for Dsm-IV Dissociative Disorders

Source: Interviewer's Guide to the Structured Clinical Interview for Dsm-IV Dissociative Disorders

“100 trillion is 100 followed by 12 zeroes”

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Book:Business Economics

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“My parents are not special people, they’re ordinary, and one of my problems is that I’m expecting perfection from ordinary people. They’re not saints or masters of knowledge just people, people who have children, which, last time I checked, required no proficiency test. People who continue to make mistakes, attempt to learn from them and repeat, until death.”

Depression Perfection Parenting Immigrant Experience Ghana Black Author Immigrant Parents

Book:Maame

Source: Maame

“I don't care what baggage they dragged over the ocean. They have no right to make me carry it the rest of my life.”

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Book:Loveboat, Taipei

Source: Loveboat, Taipei

“My parents already know I'm bereft of their culture, that their son is almost as Frank or Bill as any other American, but they also believe this is necessary: that if their son is to become president, it won't happen while he is wearing a turban. They're willing to surrender their culture in order to assure my success, which means the price of my inclusion here is our alienation from each other.”

Assimilation Immigrant Experience Immigrant Parents Cultural Erasure

Book:Of Color

Source: Of Color

“[T]he success of every novel -- if it's a novel of action -- depends on the high spots. The thing to do is to say to yourself, "What are my big scenes?" and then get every drop of juice out of them." (Interview, The Paris Review, Issue 64, Winter 1975)”

Writing Focus Creative Process Novels

Author:P.G. Wodehouse

“I grew up listening to languages my immigrant parents didn't want to teach me, so I get a regressive pleasure out of feeling my way through sounds to their possible meanings. Not "getting" a word, or a line, or a poem at first read was never an obstacle for me — in fact, it was a seduction.”

Language Immigrants Ancestors Mother Tongue Immigrant Parents First Generation Not Knowing Your Mother Tongue

Author:Ange Minko

“If you were to find this man and this America to your liking...well, it would be good for you.”

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Book:The Reluctant Bride

Source: The Reluctant Bride

“It's like my mom and dad created a whole new world for themselves. I live in their new world. But they understand the old world, the world they came from—and I don't. I don't belong anywhere. That's the problem.”

Belonging Immigrant Parents

Book:Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“But if I knew any of this back then, I didn't yet have the vocabulary for that knowledge. And perhaps because of that, without intending to do so, I had continued the pattern of some of the men, and most of the women, in my family, reaching s far back as we had memory. We were careless, and shiftless, and unthinking. We left our ancestral homes, we birthed and sometimes buried our children in far-flung places, and we started afresh over and over. We cared for land, but too often it wasn't our land to care for.”

Immigrant Experience Expats Immigrant Parents

Book:Leaving Before the Rains Come

Source: Leaving Before the Rains Come