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“To be an Asian person in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a state of shame almost all of the time”
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“If her love took on the contours of patriarchy and white supremacy, if her love was violent or brutal, so was the world in which she was trying to help me survive... still, I understand how abuse and violence can turn into grotesque proxies for love.”
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“We live in a culture where some of us are held to impossible standards...But all of us deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, even if we are not extraordinary. Even if we are not perfect.”
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“I trace my birth as an Angry Little Asian Girl to the dawn of puberty”
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“To live as a minoritized, nonwhite person in this country is to exist in a perpetual state of shame... You will never belong, You will never be enough, You will never be American—by which, we mean you will never be white”
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