The Taste of Ginger

by Mansi Shah

“It is better to fail at the right thing than to succeed at the wrong one.”

“Only white people say they’re color blind like it’s a good thing. I’ve known what color I and everyone around me were since the day I moved to America. When you’re not at the top of a social hierarchy, you notice everything about the ones who are. So when a white person says they are color blind, it makes me feel like they are treating me as if I’m white rather than what I am. Like I’m not going to be demoted for being brown. It’s not the same as saying my brownness is equal to your whiteness.”

The greatest privilege of being born at the top is that you never have to think about how to get there.”