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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.”

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Book:Frankly in Love

Source: Frankly in Love

“There may be a lot of kids in this world, but the stupid ones are always stupid in the same way.”

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Book:Las Cucarachas

Source: Las Cucarachas

“There may be a lot of kids in the world, but the stupid ones are all stupid in the same way.”

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Author:Yongsoo Park

“Every meal, even a somber one like this, was a celebration of what we had left, what remained on this earth to taste and feel and see.”

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Author:Nancy Jooyoun Kim

“As a Korean, when meeting a Korean adoptee, I feel a negative charge. It feels like rubbing the wrong parts of two batteries together, a painful repelling that is supposed to be an attraction. Korean adoptees have told me time and time again that they feel abandoned and neglected. But what they do not know is that Koreans also feel a longing for them - the longing for the lost child, the lost sibling, like when people look at the Taegeuk and see the dividing line and ignore the fact that a circle binds them together. A big reason I married Danny was because I needed to show him that we all missed him. I needed to accept him with the open arms denied me so many times by Koreans.”

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Book:I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying

Source: I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying