Jolene

“Perhaps racism demonstrates its tenacity by making hypocrites of even its victims.”
― Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents

“And so the question remains: What aren’t we building when we are building our brands?”
― Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World

“I didn't know what to tell people about surviving a loss I couldn't even remember, or how the face I saw reflected in the mirror often seemed like a stranger's. And I couldn't lie to myself about why I struggled to feel I belonged in my own life; not since the day I'd finally asked a classmate why she didn't like me, and she pulled her eyes back and said, "The same reason no one else likes you." No matter how many answers I doled out or how much I prayed for acceptance, I was never going to grow out of being Korean in a white town.”
― Nicole Chung, All You Can Ever Know

“When editors and journalists steer clear of important topics for fear that their audiences can’t cope with complex truths, it doesn’t throttle conspiracies—it fuels them.”
― Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World