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Ever since I started writing poetry seriously, I have used English inappropriately.

— Cathy Park Hong Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (2020)

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To other English is to make audible the imperial power sewn into the language, to slit English open so its dark histories slide out.

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (2020)

Most white Americans can only understand racial trauma as a spectacle.

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (2020)

Innocence is both a privilege and a cognitive handicap, a sheltered unknowingness that, once protracted into adulthood, hardens into entitlement.

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (2020)

What Black and Asian and brown people know about each other is what white people have said about us, and this is why the real problem is still white supremacy, even if the perpetrators aren’t white.

Interview with Vox (2021)

I’d rather be indebted than be the kind of white man who thinks the world owes him, because to live an ethical life is to be held accountable to history.

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (2020)

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