From then on out, I would often receive comments from other people in college about how I wasn't like other Asians. — Rochelle, age 28
Honestly all I wanted to do was hold hands in public with the person I love who just happened to be a woman---who would care? — Pamme, age 62
I was never really challenged around my ideas of race or the ideas about race that other people were teaching me. I didn't understand the extent at which people were still suffering here in this country because of their race. — Emily, age 29
Being an Asian-American is an important part of my identity, but not the only way I define myself or want others to perceive me. — Gaby, age 21
I'd heard what my family's dubbed "white people talk" before, I'd never thought that speaking how I had for ages would be considered low-brow or looked down upon us. — Jason, age 28
I sometimes wonder if my own children will go through the same struggles I went through growing up. In some ways, I hope they do because I know that I am a stronger, more empathetic person because of it. — Victoria, age 28
My father was German/Irish, my mother is Taiwanese, and my step mother is Singaporean–a pretty standard bi-racial post-nuclear family setup. — Derek, age 25
