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If fiction dictates that a writer identify only the race of non-white characters, then craft is a tool used to normalize whiteness. If race is a factor only in stories with characters of color, then craft must be different for fiction with
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“She lies awake at night, staring upward, remembering being right next to the only discovery that matters. Life was whispering instructions to her, and she failed to write them down.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“But the experience of Asians in America isn’t just a scaled-back or dialed-down version of the Black experience. Instead of co-opting someone else’s experience or consciousness, he must define his own.”
― Interior Chinatown
― Interior Chinatown
“And yet, places remember what people forget.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“Lying there in the silence, you try to imagine what she could possibly mean. Kung Fu Guy is the pinnacle. How could anyone be more?”
― Interior Chinatown
― Interior Chinatown
“Once that gets going, doors start opening until they’re all open, the whole building buzzing until sunrise, as if nothing matters because nothing does matter because the idea was 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. You’re here, supposedly, in a new land full of opportunity, but somehow have gotten trapped in a pretend version of the old country.”
― Interior Chinatown
― Interior Chinatown
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