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Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America by Julia Lee

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Whiteness cast Asians as perpetual foreigners and the model minority, cast Black people as perpetual criminals and the problem minority, then sat on the sidelines to watch what happened.

Patience Is a Subtle Thief

by Abi Ishola-Ayodeji

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Pachinko

by Min Jin Lee

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“She makes that silly flower again and again, yet she still does not understand that it would not have died had it not been beautiful enough to be picked in the first place.”
― O.O. Sangoyomi, Masquerade

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“Our bodies belonged to us. Poor, disabled, it didn’t matter. These were our bodies, and we had the right to “decide what to do with them. It was as if they were just taking our bodies from us, as if we didn’t even belong to ourselves.”
― Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand

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“One should never confuse cost with value.”
― Stacey Lee, The Downstairs Girl

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“Motherfucker, don’t you ever worry about what another man is doing. Worry about what the fuck you can do and do that, because what you can do is all you can do. It don’t fucking matter what another man is doing.”
― Roy Wood Jr., The Man of Many Fathers: Life Lessons Disguised as a Memoir

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“Once she had believed that connection meant sameness, consensus, harmony. Having everything in common. And now she understood that the opposite was true: that connection was more valuable—more remarkable—for the fact of differences. Friendship didn’t require blunting the richness of yourself to find common ground. Sometimes it was that, but it was also appreciating another person, in all their particularity.”
― Rachel Khong, Real Americans

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