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Cathy Park Hong Quotes

born 1976 United States

Cathy Park Hong (born August 7, 1976) is an American poet, writer, and professor who has published three volumes of poetry. Much of her work includes mixed language and serialized narrative.

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Maybe what I’m responding to is how white America has flattened our experience to a single story, how they perceive us as one kind. The book is an attempt to overthrow that.

Interview with The Guardian (2020)

Childhood is a state of mind, whether it's a nostalgic return to innocence or a sudden flashback to unease and dread. If the innocence of childhood is being protected and comforted, the precarity of childhood is when one feels the least protected and comfortable.

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (2020)

I don’t create redemption for my characters. The narrative of redemption is a false and lazy conceit in art. Redemption through the act of violence is avoiding culpability.

Interview (2011)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Cathy Park Hong (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.