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Gene Luen Yang Quotes

There’s bleeding between age groups in terms of reading material, and there’s bleeding between media. So there are books that are clearly comics and books that are prose, and then there are these books that are kind of in-between Picture Quote #1

For ‘American Born Chinese,’ my first graphic novel with First Second Books, I did mostly ‘memory’ research. It’s fiction, but I pulled heavily from my own childhood Picture Quote #1

My experience of Chinese culture is indirect, through echoes. When I approach the cashier at my local Chinese supermarket, they switch to English before I’ve even said a word. They somehow know that I’m not quite Chinese enough Picture Quote #1

During the Cultural Revolution, the communists came in, and what they wanted to do was eradicate all sense of traditional Chinese culture Picture Quote #1

In traditional Asian arts, the word and the picture always sit next to each other. I have an aunt, a Chinese brush painter, who told me that when you do a Chinese brush painting, you have to pair the image up with some poetry Picture Quote #1

In 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized 120 saints of China, 87 of whom were ethnically Chinese. My home church was incredibly excited because this was the first time the Roman Catholic Church acknowledged Chinese citizens in this way Picture Quote #1

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I got these big coffee table books about Chinese opera from the local library, and I loved looking through them. I loved studying the intricate costumes and figuring out how to ‘cartoonify’ them Picture Quote #1

I was a huge fan of the Bruce Timm animated series and, of course, the live action ‘Lois and Clark’ series. I watched that when I was in college Picture Quote #1

Both my mother and my father grew up in Asia, in a time of political instability. They’d earned college degrees before setting foot in the States but had to work menial jobs early on in order to make ends meet Picture Quote #1

It’s easy to become anything you wish... so long as you’re willing to forfeit your soul Picture Quote #1

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There’s bleeding between age groups in terms of reading material, and there’s bleeding between media. So there are books that are clearly comics and books that are prose, and then there are these books that are kind of in-between. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes) For ‘American Born Chinese,’ my first graphic novel with First Second Books, I did mostly ‘memory’ research. It’s fiction, but I pulled heavily from my own childhood. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes) My experience of Chinese culture is indirect, through echoes. When I approach the cashier at my local Chinese supermarket, they switch to English before I’ve even said a word. They somehow know that I’m not quite Chinese enough. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes) During the Cultural Revolution, the communists came in, and what they wanted to do was eradicate all sense of traditional Chinese culture. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes) In traditional Asian arts, the word and the picture always sit next to each other. I have an aunt, a Chinese brush painter, who told me that when you do a Chinese brush painting, you have to pair the image up with some poetry. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes) In 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized 120 saints of China, 87 of whom were ethnically Chinese. My home church was incredibly excited because this was the first time the Roman Catholic Church acknowledged Chinese citizens in this way. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes) I took a Logo programming class in fifth grade. Logo is a language specifically designed for the classroom environment. It was basically doodling through words. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes) I got these big coffee table books about Chinese opera from the local library, and I loved looking through them. I loved studying the intricate costumes and figuring out how to ‘cartoonify’ them. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes) I was a huge fan of the Bruce Timm animated series and, of course, the live action ‘Lois and Clark’ series. I watched that when I was in college. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes) Both my mother and my father grew up in Asia, in a time of political instability. They’d earned college degrees before setting foot in the States but had to work menial jobs early on in order to make ends meet. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes) It’s easy to become anything you wish... so long as you’re willing to forfeit your soul (Gene Luen Yang Quotes)

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