Jenny Zhang – “Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a pe…”

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Jenny Zhang best Dreams Quotes – “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.”

Jenny Zhang – “My mother had two unshakable beliefs that she tried to drill into…”

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Jenny Zhang best Dreams Quotes – “My mother had two unshakable beliefs that she tried to drill into me. The first was that I had to study and work twice as hard as my white peers if I wanted to survive in America, and the second was that it was delusional and dangerous to believe I possessed the same freedom white people had to pursue my dreams.”