Quotes from Nguyen Viet Thang

Every new refugee to a society, whether it's the United States or some other place, is subjected to fear. They are the new outsider population, the new other.

I think my parents' lives are worthy of writing about. I don't think my life is particularly worthy of writing about.

No one wants for their child to become a refugee. It's an awful experience.

In the United States, we want to believe we will never become a country of refugees.

In the United States, the immigrant experience occupies a very central place in American mythology. And sometimes, that place wavers between acceptance and rejection.

My identity is deeply intertwined with being a refugee because that's the first experience that I remember.