Cindy

“Did every step feel like the running leap a bird takes before flight?”
― Jesmyn Ward

“We all do stupid things when we're young, but some of us don't have the privilege of growing out of it.”
― Quinta Brunson, She Memes Well

“But Little Saigon as strategic hamlet is not just physical real estate. It is also mnemonic real estate, for according to the informal terms of the American compact, the more wealth minorities amass, the more property they buy, the more clout they accumulate, and the more visible they become, the more other Americans will positively recognize and remember them. Belonging would substitute for longing; membership would make up for disremembering.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War

“Memory and self-representation are thus inseparable, for those who represent themselves are also saying this: remember us.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen