Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston Quotes & Sayings

I instinctively decided that I would prove that I wasn't different, that it should not be odd to hear me speaking English. From that day forward I lived with this double impulse:the urge to disappear and the desperate desire to be accepted — Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

From that day on, pay of me yearned to be invisible. In a way, nothing would have been nicer than for no one to see me. Although I could not have defined it at the Tom me, I felt if attention were drawn to me, people would see what this girl had first responded to. They wouldn't see me, the would see the slanted - eye face, the Oriental. — Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

That continuous, unnamed ache I had been living with was precise and definable now. Call it the foretaste of being hated. I knew ahead of time that if someone looked at me with hate, I would have to allow it, to swallow it, because something in me, something about me deserved it. — Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

You cannot deport 110,000 people unless you have stopped seeing individuals. Of course, for such a thing to happen, there has to be a kind of acquiescence on the part of the victims, some submerged belief that this treatment is deserved, or at least allowable. — Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

When your mother and your father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you just want them to stop fighting?
— Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

The reason I want to remember this is because I know we'll never be able to do it again. — Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

Now she wanted for me the same thing I thought I wanted. Acceptance, in her eyes, was simply another means for survival. — Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston