J Wong

“My request was for courage. To turn and face the thing that scares you the most and do your best to stay there. I asked for honesty, which sometimes requires more strength than most things we do in our lives.”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

“What I have is a healthy sense of spite and a determination that someday I’m going to learn how to do this thing called living. Maybe that’s as far as justice can stretch.”
― Dot Hutchison, Roses of May

“Not making a choice is a choice. Neutrality is a concept, not a fact.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden

“We play into the definitions and stereotypes others impose on us and accept the model-minority myth, thinking it's positive, but it's a trap just like any stereotype. They put a piece of model-minority cheese between the metal jaws of their mousetrap, but we're lactose intolerant anyway! We can't even eat the cheese.”
― Eddie Huang, Fresh Off the Boat