George Takei Quotes (page 5)
I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.
I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.
I love the show, and I`m proud of my association with the show, and certainly the character is one that is very much a part of me.
Every time we had a hot war going on in Asia, it was difficult for Asian Americans here.
But when we came out of camp, that`s when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.