Ocean Vuong

Sometimes it's just us three. Me, you and her. On slow days, I would answer the phone at the nail salon and, you know, she would be there working. And what's so interesting was that when you called me. This is Oprah. How are you? What? This is Oprah. How are you? I recognized the voice right away. I just didn't believe that you were talking to me for any real reason.

Sometimes it's just us three. Me, you and her. On slow days, I would answer the phone at the nail salon and, you know, she would be there working. And what's so interesting was that when you called me. This is Oprah. How are you? What? This is Oprah. How are you? I recognized the voice right away. I just didn't believe that you were talking to me for any real reason.

Sometimes it's just us three. Me, you and her. On slow days, I would answer the phone at the nail salon and, you know, she would be there working. And what's so interesting was that when you called me. This is Oprah. How are you? What? This is Oprah. How are you? I recognized the voice right away. I just didn't believe that you were talking to me for any real reason.

But when I heard your voice, I said, this is the voice I heard all my life at four o'clock when I answered the phone. And, you know, I wanted to tell you this, that your voice was a kind of Mediation for all of these women in the nail salon, both the workers and the people who went there to get their nails done.

But when I heard your voice, I said, this is the voice I heard all my life at four o'clock when I answered the phone. And, you know, I wanted to tell you this, that your voice was a kind of Mediation for all of these women in the nail salon, both the workers and the people who went there to get their nails done.

But when I heard your voice, I said, this is the voice I heard all my life at four o'clock when I answered the phone. And, you know, I wanted to tell you this, that your voice was a kind of Mediation for all of these women in the nail salon, both the workers and the people who went there to get their nails done.

Because I saw them when they came in with their husbands and the husband will wait for a while and then they will leave. And after a while, it will just be all women. And I found that their voices changed. with your voice among them. And as a child, it was so interesting to hear speech. Everyone talking differently. They were more vulnerable. They were more open with each other.

Because I saw them when they came in with their husbands and the husband will wait for a while and then they will leave. And after a while, it will just be all women. And I found that their voices changed. with your voice among them. And as a child, it was so interesting to hear speech. Everyone talking differently. They were more vulnerable. They were more open with each other.

Because I saw them when they came in with their husbands and the husband will wait for a while and then they will leave. And after a while, it will just be all women. And I found that their voices changed. with your voice among them. And as a child, it was so interesting to hear speech. Everyone talking differently. They were more vulnerable. They were more open with each other.

And I got to see my mother kind of use the show as a way to open up for herself and to learn the language. She would not always understand what was happening, but she would have this little trick where every time there was like an inflected moment in the show with your voice, my mother would...

And I got to see my mother kind of use the show as a way to open up for herself and to learn the language. She would not always understand what was happening, but she would have this little trick where every time there was like an inflected moment in the show with your voice, my mother would...

And I got to see my mother kind of use the show as a way to open up for herself and to learn the language. She would not always understand what was happening, but she would have this little trick where every time there was like an inflected moment in the show with your voice, my mother would...

work on a client she'd go oh boy and then the client would it always works you could any given time you could just say oh boy and then the client would say hey isn't that right and then she would learn what was happening from them because her voice her head is down she couldn't hear it

work on a client she'd go oh boy and then the client would it always works you could any given time you could just say oh boy and then the client would say hey isn't that right and then she would learn what was happening from them because her voice her head is down she couldn't hear it

work on a client she'd go oh boy and then the client would it always works you could any given time you could just say oh boy and then the client would say hey isn't that right and then she would learn what was happening from them because her voice her head is down she couldn't hear it

But I saw this kind of town square that your voice created and the themes and what was really touching for me, and I didn't understand at that time, for a community that I grew up in, working poor, immigrants, Reading was very intimidating. We didn't step into bookstores or libraries. It felt like an impenetrable world that was not for us.

But I saw this kind of town square that your voice created and the themes and what was really touching for me, and I didn't understand at that time, for a community that I grew up in, working poor, immigrants, Reading was very intimidating. We didn't step into bookstores or libraries. It felt like an impenetrable world that was not for us.

But I saw this kind of town square that your voice created and the themes and what was really touching for me, and I didn't understand at that time, for a community that I grew up in, working poor, immigrants, Reading was very intimidating. We didn't step into bookstores or libraries. It felt like an impenetrable world that was not for us.

And it was aligned with elitism and power and institutions and higher learning that we thought that ship has sailed for us. But when you held up the books in your show, my mother recognized that and says, This is accessible. You're making the act of reading both accessibly dignified, but also fruitful for people who are outside of these realms of institutional elitism.

And it was aligned with elitism and power and institutions and higher learning that we thought that ship has sailed for us. But when you held up the books in your show, my mother recognized that and says, This is accessible. You're making the act of reading both accessibly dignified, but also fruitful for people who are outside of these realms of institutional elitism.