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“You will never be perfectly fair, and you will never be truly correct,” Lao Ge said. “This is your burden.”
― F.C. Yee, Avatar: The Rise of Kyoshi

“It’s amazing what the mind can be led to believe,” Lao Ge said.”
― F.C. Yee, Avatar: The Rise of Kyoshi

“That’s where you’re wrong. The illusion that the self is separate from the rest of the world is the driving factor that limits our potential. Once you realize there’s nothing special about the self, it becomes easier to manipulate.”
― F.C. Yee, Avatar: The Rise of Kyoshi

“Innocence is, as Bernstein writes, not just an “absence of knowledge” but “an active state of repelling knowledge,” embroiled in the statement, “Well, I don’t see race” where I eclipses the seeing. Innocence is both a privilege and a cognitive handicap, a sheltered unknowingness that, once protracted into adulthood, hardens into entitlement.”
― Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning