Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston Quotes

When your mother and your father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you just want them tostop fighting?

When your mother and your father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you just want them tostop fighting?

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

Tags: fight, war

That continuous, unnamed ache I had been living with was precise and definable now. Call it the foretaste of being hated. I knew ahead of time that if someone looked at me with hate, I would have to a...

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

That continuous, unnamed ache I had been living with was precise and definable now. Call it the foretaste of being hated. I knew ahead of time that if someone looked at me with hate, I would have to a...

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

Tags: injustice, internment, prejudice

About Author

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (born September 26, 1934) is an American writer. Her writings primarily focus on ethnic identity formation in the United States of America. She is best known for her autobiographical novel Farewell to Manzanar that narrates her personal experiences in World War II internment camps.