Be Like Water My Friend • Bruce Lee (李小龍) Quotes on The Tao ☯️ & The WAY 上帝

Born in San Francisco on 27 November 1940, the year of the Dragon, Bruce Lee (李小龍) made his first film at the age of three months, entitled 'Golden Gate Girl'. The child of Chinese opera stars, Lee moved to Hong Kong in his childhood, where he starred in over twenty films before he returned to the United States as an undergraduate at the University of Washington in Seattle. In that city, Lee threw himself into the Asian American world, working in Chinatown as a busboy and as a teacher of his favorite art, Kung Fu in the 'sticking hands' method.

Lee left college to marry Linda Emery, a white American of Swedish-English ancestry, and they soon had a son, Brandon Lee (of 1994's 'The Crow' movie), and a daughter, Shannon.

Lee became one of the first Martial Arts shifus (Masters) to train non-Asians, whites like Chuck Norris and blacks like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) and all manner of Asians.

Lee’s swagger took him to Hollywood in 1966, as Kato in 'The Green Hornet'. His four great films 'Fists of Fury' (1971), 'The Chinese Connection' (1971), 'The Way of the Dragon (1972), and Enter the Dragon (1973) came from the Hong Kong years. These movies brought Lee immense success, and after his premature death in 1973, he became a legend: his grave in Seattle is a shrine to which pilgrims travel from far and wide!