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Why We Swim
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“Why do we swim?” rumbles Imamura, with another winning smile. “Well, that’s very simple, you see.” Like a professor, he steeples his hands, and then proceeds to tick off the following on his slender brown fingers: For survival: “Japan, of
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“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
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“One characteristic of racism is that children are treated like adults and adults are treated like children. Watching a parent being debased like a child is the deepest shame. I cannot count the number of times I have seen my parents condescended to or mocked by white adults. This was so customary that when my mother had any encounter with a white adult, I was always hypervigilant, ready to mediate or pull her away. To grow up Asian in America is to witness the humiliation of authority figures like your parents and to learn not to depend on them: they cannot protect you.”
― Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
― Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
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“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
― Notebooks 1935-1942
― Notebooks 1935-1942
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