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Alice Walker • The Color Purple

The teacher looked at her, looked away, and instead called on a White hand as soon as it was raised. As the Black girl’s arm came down, I could see her head going down. As I saw her head going down, I could see her spirits going down. I turned and looked up at the teacher, who, of course, was not looking at me. She was too busy engaging a favored
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The first thing I noticed was the size of her face. The therapist had an enormous face. I wondered if this was a problem for her, since Korean women are so self-conscious about the size of their faces that they will go under the knife to shave their jawlines down
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: A Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition
They’re photographs of my mind and they help me make a kind of sense of my development as a person as well as of my development as a writer.
Phillip Lopate • Writers and Their Notebooks
Temo had never kept his girlfriends from me, even back when he had many of them. So many women those years I first moved to the city, all fast talking and sophisticated, all light skinned with long straight hair, so different from me that I began to see that he did not conceive of women who looked like me as beautiful.