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“But at the same time, I’m guilty, too. Guilty of playing this role. Letting it define me. Internalizing the role so completely that I’ve lost track of where reality starts and the performance begins. And letting that define how I see other people. I’m as guilty of it as anyone. Fetishizing Black people and their coolness. Romanticizing White women. Wishing I were a White man. Putting myself into this category.”
― Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

“As, everyone knows, water hates poor people. Given the opportunity, water will always find a way to make poor people miserable, typically at the worst time possible.”
― Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

“Because the secret of everyone who comes to London—who comes to any big city—is that they came here because they did not feel normal, back at home.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Be Famous

“This is it. The root of it all. The real history of yellow people in America. Two hundred years of being perpetual foreigners.”
― Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown