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“the performer comes to be his own audience; he comes to be the performer and observer”
― Interior Chinatown
― Interior Chinatown
“He is asking to be treated like an American. A real american. Cuz honestly, when you think about American, what color do you see? white? black? We (the Chinese) have been here 200 years....the German, the Dutch, the Italian, they came here in the turn of century; they are Americans. Why doesn't this face ("yellow") register as American? Is it because we make the story too complicated?”
― Interior Chinatown
― Interior Chinatown
“You came here, your parents and their parents and their parents, and you always seem to have just arrived and yet never seem to have actually arrived.”
― Interior Chinatown
― Interior Chinatown
“Better to be a legend than a star.”
― Interior Chinatown
― Interior Chinatown
“But at the same time, I’m guilty, too. Guilty of playing this role. Letting it define me. Internalizing the role so completely that I’ve lost track of where reality starts and the performance begins. And letting that define how I see other people. I’m as guilty of it as anyone. Fetishizing Black people and their coolness. Romanticizing White women. Wishing I were a White man. Putting myself into this category.”
― Interior Chinatown
― Interior Chinatown
Allison’s 2025 Year in Books
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98 friends
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