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Don Lee Quotes

born 1971 United States

Don Lee (born 1971) is a Korean-American novelist, fiction writer, literary journal editor, and professor.

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I’d like to see us get to the point where Asian American authors can have Asian American characters and a big deal isn’t made about it, or at least so it’s not the first thing mentioned…

I feel queasy about the idea of having non-Asians taking center stage in one of my books. I would feel guilty about it, as if I were trying to deny my ethnic heritage, even though this is precisely what I am suggesting we should be free to do.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Don Lee (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.