Sublime

feline feelings of both dependency and resentment.

Principle five: statements, not questions, were less likely to lead to no.

Who says we don’t share a common humanity? Claude said, advancing to the next slide of an American GI urinating on a Viet Cong corpse.

As a nonwhite person, the General, like myself, knew he must be patient with white people, who were easily scared by the nonwhite. Even with liberal white people, one could go only so far, and with average white people one could barely go anywhere.

In my naïveté, I had simply assumed that once roles were created for Vietnamese people, Vietnamese actors would be found. But no.

I found the Vietnamese in America both intimate and alien, but Vietnam itself was simply alien.

(Nothing, the General muttered, is ever so expensive as what is offered for free.)