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Asian Americans inhabit a vague purgatorial status: not white enough nor black enough; distrusted by African Americans, ignored by whites, unless we’re being used by whites to keep the black man down. We are the carpenter ants of the
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“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.”
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“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”
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Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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“Home is not where you are born;
home is where all your attempts
to escape cease.”
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home is where all your attempts
to escape cease.”
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Literary Fiction by People of Color
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This can include genre fiction that is literary (e.g. speculative fiction, historical fiction, etc.), as long as it's written by a person of color (Af ...more
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Este grupo, creado en el 2007, nace de una iniciativa colectiva para abrir un espacio a los hispanohablantes dentro de la amplia red de intercambio qu ...more
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