“Asian Americans inhabit a purgatorial status: neither white enough nor black enough, unmentioned in most conversations about racial identity. In the popular imagination, Asian Americans are all high-achieving professionals. But in reality, this is the most economically divided group in the country, a tenuous alliance of people with roots from South Asia to East Asia to the Pacific Islands, from tech millionaires to service industry laborers. How do we speak honestly about the Asian American condition—if such a thing exists?”
― Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
― Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories - triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically or dialectally - has a lot to do with whether we cut short or advance our evolution as human beings.”
― The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
― The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
College admission and American culture
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