Vijay Seshadri - When you're an immigrant, you're at the bottom of the ladder. You might not

When you're an immigrant, you're at the bottom of the ladder. You might not be at the bottom of the ladder economically. Those contradictions led me to feel that the role in society I was given didn't jive with my sense of myself. I think, in fact, that is the case with most people. Everybody feels themselves to be in an original relationship to creation, and feels confined by their social role.

- Vijay Seshadri

source: "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.