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“White people can describe themselves with just American. Only when pressed do they go into their ethnic heritage. Doesn't seem fair that I have to forever explain my origin story with that silent hyphen, whereas white people don't. It's complicated. But simple. Simplicated.”

Simple Complicated Ethnicity American Origins White People Korean American Hyphen Hyphenated Simplicated

Book:Frankly in Love

Source: Frankly in Love

“Sometimes I feel like I’m just appearing in the same place. Again and again. Just alternate realities in an infinite multiverse.” Up until this point in my young life I had never heard anything more romantic.”

Book:Super Fake Love Song

Source: Super Fake Love Song

“People, I realized, rooted for teams not necessarily because one was somehow fundamentally better than the other. They did it mostly just to belong. Because it was nice to belong to something, or someone.”

People Together Belonging

Book:Super Fake Love Song

Source: Super Fake Love Song

“I had a thing I called the Post-Encounter Energy Scan (PEES). After hanging out with someone, you took a moment to gauge how your body felt. If you felt tired and depleted by the encounter, you should probably not expose yourself to that person again. If you felt energized, you should increase your exposure to that person.”

Book:Super Fake Love Song

Source: Super Fake Love Song

“People who let themselves learn new things are the best kind of people.”

People Education Learning Best Kind Of Humans

Book:Frankly in Love

Source: Frankly in Love

“It killed me that people had to cancel their dreams for endless toil, unless of course we somehow managed to pull ourselves out of these late-stage capitalist dark ages and into a Star Trek (TNG) future blessed with a universal basic income and sweet jumpsuits.”

Life Music Dreams Aspirations

Book:Super Fake Love Song

Source: Super Fake Love Song

“Pop is not music. Pop is celebrity. Fabricated personas that are all style, no substance. Pop is a celebration of fakeness. Artifice is the only cultural currency left, now that the internet has erased all contextual borders.”

Music Rock And Roll Pop Culture Pop Music

Book:Super Fake Love Song

Source: Super Fake Love Song

“Brit is fluent in the language of Openness, and I realized now that I am not.”

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“Laughter is the music of the deep cosmos connecting all human beings that says all the things mere words cannot.”

Human Beings Music Laughter Words Cosmos

Book:Frankly in Love

Source: Frankly in Love

“People can code switch to confuse others, express dominance or submission, or disguise themselves.”

Disguise Submission Dominance Confuse Code Switch

Book:Frankly in Love

Source: Frankly in Love

“Humanity's greatest strength - and also the reason for its ultimate downfall - is its ability to normalize even the bizarre.”

Humanity Bizarre Downfall Normalize Greatest Strength

Book:Frankly in Love

Source: Frankly in Love

“Kitsch is not seeing something for what it is, but what you think it should be.”

Reality Illusion Impression Kitsch To See

Book:Frankly in Love

Source: Frankly in Love