“At 14 I discovered girls. At that time dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship.”

“I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.”