I’m drawn to the figure of the ungrateful subaltern as a trope in literature. In real life, it is often dangerous to demand more. Jenny Zhang Read Quote
That’s what people expect: They don’t want to read a slight novel. People don’t want to waste their time on anything less than ‘great.’ Jenny Zhang Read Quote
Even when I speak English to my parents, I’ll say an English word differently to my Chinese parents and friends than I do to my English-speaking friends – you know, I’ll pronounce ‘McDonald’s’ differently, because it feels right, and that’s what I’m used to. Jenny Zhang Read Quote
Faced with ostracization at school and confinement at home, I turned to karaoke. Jenny Zhang Read Quote
Our culture is bloodthirsty for stories about women in pain; we hunger for women to expose their traumas and to be rescued by the love of a good man. Jenny Zhang Read Quote
Does self-acceptance ultimately require another person, or is there a kind of love that does not dabble in the dream of a perfect twinship? Jenny Zhang Read Quote
Michael Derrick Hudson is not the first person to slip into the identity of a person of color to give himself some perceived advantage. He can slip back into his life and not walk around in this world as a person of color who endures racism. Jenny Zhang Read Quote
