Jenna Le

"It cannot end like this, I thought--
a mass extermination of inner life."

"I don't sing with people who know more than 100 religious hymns."

"It cannot end like this, I thought--
a mass extermination of inner life."

"I don't sing with people who know more than 100 religious hymns."

"Proof of our lives was that we could feel pain; however, pain was not something that could exonerate us. After we admitted this fact, we felt wonderful."

"And because I am irrational I can't explain anything I believe in And because I can't explain I write"

"Humanity's pattern is the moment you see the beautiful eyes of fish and they become difficult to eat...."

"The only ability I have is the ability to be different from you."

"You can't see the poet's star from earth. However, you can watch the earth from the poet's star."

"[M]inor feelings: the racialized range of emotions that are negative, dysphoric, and therefore untelegenic, built from the sediments of everyday racial experience and the irritant of having one's perception of reality constantly questioned or dismis

"[M]inor feelings: the racialized range of emotions that are negative, dysphoric, and therefore untelegenic, built from the sediments of everyday racial experience and the irritant of having one's perception of reality constantly questioned or dismissed."

"As the poet Prageeta Sharma said, Americans have an expiration date on race the way they do for grief. At some point, they expect you to get over it."

"It's hard to imagine that the origin of Asian America came from a radical place, because the moniker is now flattened and emptied of any blazing political rhetoric...."