Jenny Zhang
Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person's worth. Your mother tongue, your motherland, your mother's values — these things can qualify or disqualify you from attaining myriad American dreams: love, fluency, citizenship, legitimacy, acceptance, success, freedom.
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First learn the meaning of what you say...We are all born brave, trusting and greedy...Forty for you, sixty for me...Time is money...I found that when I went from Albany to Savannah...Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured...