Silver Like Dust Quotes

“There are things that cannot be changed, and you don’t try to change them.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, Silver Like Dust: One Family's Story of America's Japanese Internment

“Living alone in a foreign country without parents, siblings, or friends, trying to keep pace with society here, was painful and sad.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, Silver Like Dust: One Family's Story of America's Japanese Internment

“He described himself as a “transplant” and not an “outsider.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, Silver Like Dust: One Family's Story of America's Japanese Internment

“When you’re older, you look back and you realize there are people who lifted you up, who helped you.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, Silver Like Dust: One Family's Story of America's Japanese Internment

“You might be the only Japanese a person ever meets,” he insisted, “and that person will judge the entire race based on how you act. It might not seem fair, but it’s true.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, Silver Like Dust: One Family's Story of America's Japanese Internment

“Be like the Japanese,” she wrote. “Learn to compartmentalize.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, Silver Like Dust: One Family's Story of America's Japanese Internment

“A nation cannot thrive if people decide to create their own rules,”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, Silver Like Dust: One Family's Story of America's Japanese Internment

“It was a day of new beginnings. A day of hope.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, Silver Like Dust: One Family's Story of America's Japanese Internment