Soapie

“This industry is built on silencing us, stomping us into the ground, and hurling money at white people to produce racist stereotypes of us.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

“V Wild Boy Frankie, 19 January–February 1943 Me and Stan Katsumoto are hanging around by 1-9-E, so-called “City Hall,” when the army jeep comes roaring toward camp, and I’m not gonna lie, the sight of the tires kicking up a dust cloud in the cold January morning makes me wanna hit something. The army guys are here to recruit volunteers for Roosevelt’s new combat team. See, we don’t got liberty, we don’t got property, but you better believe we’ve got the Great American Right to die for a country that doesn’t want us.”
― Traci Chee, We Are Not Free

“How do you tell a story that has been told the wrong way for so long?”
― Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

“It doesn’t matter how good we are, because they see only what they want to see, and when they look at us, all they see are Japs.”
― Traci Chee, We Are Not Free