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You’re only half-Chinese.” I try not to wince at the “only,” which implies that half isn’t enough.
“There are enough people in the world ready to put you down. Do you need to join them?”
Why be ordinary when you have the choice to be so much more?”
You should never be a satellite orbiting your own life.
“No one else can be you. No one else can tell your story like you. You are unique, so write the movie you want to see.” “No one can tell my story,”
but what would we have in common? They’d be related but strangers.”
“There are always people like him, everywhere.”
“He’s scared and he feels inferior and he doesn’t like it.”
“Fuck shoulds.”
“You’re beautiful inside and out. Don’t let a person like him extinguish any of you. You should be proud of yourself.”
His life mixes extreme privilege with such a poverty of normal experience.
Don’t Think, Do
