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• ‟ White people have always slipped in and out of the experiences of people of color and been praised extravagantly for it.

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• ‟ Of course I want the things I write to reflect well on me or anyone who might feel represented by me, but also, I'm not writing a guidebook on how to be or how my people should be seen. I'm telling very specific stories.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ When I was an undergrad at Stanford, there was a girl named Jennie Kim who worked for the school newspaper. Sometimes people would come up to me and talk to me about articles she had written. 'That one on getting a Brazilian was hilarious', some guy said, high-fiving me.

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• ‟ I just submitted what I had to the 'Octopus Books' contest open reading period, and they said they wanted to publish my poetry book. Then I started to publish more and more poetry because people would ask me to do readings or ask me submit something for their journal.

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• ‟ Sometimes I worry that people who read my fiction think that I am making some kind of thesis statement.

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