Being Different
One major adversity I face in life is simply being different from everyone else. I struggle with my identity because of my race. What am...
The Token Asian
Growing up as the “Token Asian,” I never stopped to consider the jokes at my expense. Slant-eyes, always smelling like fish, Pacific...
The American Way
I must admit I don’t think I ever felt different until I was about 7 years old. Prior to that, I had always been surrounded by people...
If It Looks Like a Duck...
I was born in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. My parents divorced when I turned five, and my mother, grandmother and I left...
