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No matter our income, my family could not cough up the thorn embedded in our chests.
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
In my efforts to speak nearby, I also have to confront the distance between us, which is challenging because once I implicate myself, I can never implicate myself enough. The distance between us is class.
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Rich people walk into Neiman Marcus and see a different store than poor people do, because rich people actually have the capacity to buy things in that store.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
(an exam that you never fail, unless you are afflicted by wealth)
Viet Thanh Nguyen • The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal. It is a belief that dominates this culture. It is what makes the poor... See more
A Question of Class by Dorothy Allison
But I did find this—it’s not my own idea, but something I came across at the library, a line from a novel by Dostoevsky: “Money is coined freedom.” What do you think? Isn’t “coined freedom” a rather refreshing term? But seriously, I was fascinated to find this one line that drove right to the heart of this thing called money.
Notes & Highlights for The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi
(Nothing, the General muttered, is ever so expensive as what is offered for free.)
Viet Thanh Nguyen • The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
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