- Nov 07, 2020
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- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you were to make a quick judgment call on my intelligence and articulation when I first moved to the U.S. based on my speaking skills, it would be very low.
- Delusional
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Sour Heart' is a collection of seven linked short stories narrated by young Chinese-American girls living in New York City in the '90s. It's exceptionally hard to describe what I've written without sounding delusional or boring, so I'll just say they are stories about growing up and the pleasures and agonies of having a family, a body, and a home.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who have very devastating lives sometimes have the most wild, avant-garde humor. It's like when you've seen it all and been through it all, nothing is off-limits in a way.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're not the best about knowing what's the most interesting about ourselves.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really had to develop a core. I had to figure out, at my core as a writer, what did I value? What was I about? And I had to love it and take pleasure in it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it was really important for me before I 'debuted myself' in front of the world to have a private life with my imagination and my writing for several years. That also made it so I didn't feel desperate for someone to find me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a graduate student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for fiction writing, I felt both coveted and hated. My white classmates never failed to remind me that I was more fortunate than they were at this particular juncture in American literature.
- Color
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- Nov 07, 2020
White people have always slipped in and out of the experiences of people of color and been praised extravagantly for it.
- Parenting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Asian American success is often presented as something of a horror - robotic, unfeeling machines psychotically hellbent on excelling, products of abusive tiger parenting who care only about test scores and perfection, driven to succeed without even knowing why.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the founding tenets of racism: a society that will never allow white people to think that because they are white, they won't succeed.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in America, I experienced two puberties. The first opened me up to the possibilities of adulthood. The second reinforced that for someone like me - an immigrant, a minority, an Asian-American - there were limits.
- Determining
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person's worth. Your mother tongue, your motherland, your mother's values - these things can qualify or disqualify you from attaining myriad American dreams: love, fluency, citizenship, legitimacy, acceptance, success, freedom.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother had two unshakable beliefs that she tried to drill into me. The first was that I had to study and work twice as hard as my white peers if I wanted to survive in America, and the second was that it was delusional and dangerous to believe I possessed the same freedom white people had to pursue my dreams.
- Fluency
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- Nov 07, 2020
My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness that it stung all the more to still find myself outside of it. My mother, on the other hand, not only accepted that she would always be an outsider in this country but also believed it to be a finer fate and home than any other she could have had.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to love, maturity often gets a bad rap - second love is boring; it's practical. It's what our parents feel for each other.
- Joke
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I passed by a Chinese restaurant in a car, I'd joke to my friends, 'Oh yeah, my uncle owns that place.'
- Moody
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a decade, Emma-Lee Moss has been steadily making weird, moody, melancholic music under the moniker 'Emmy the Great' that has been referred to as nue-folk, anti-folk, synthpop, and, most of all, literary.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020