"Ever since I started writing poetry seriously, I have used English inappropriately."

"As a poet, I have always treated English as a weapon in a power struggle, wielding it against those who are more powe…"

"Nothing gets dated faster than a joke."

"minor feelings: the racialized range of emotions that are negative, dysphoric, and therefore untelegenic, built from …"

"The flip side of innocence is shame."

"In many Asian American novels, writers set trauma in a distant mother country or within an insular Asian family to en…"

"I’d rather be indebted than be the kind of white man who thinks the world owes him, because to live an ethical life i…"

"Racial self-hatred is seeing yourself the way the whites see you, which turns you into your own worst"

"The problem with silence is that it can’t speak up and say why it’s silent. And so silence collects, becomes amplifie…"

"To other English is to make audible the imperial power sewn into the language, to slit English open so its dark histo…"