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Language was always the companion of empire, and as such, together they begin, grow, and flourish. And later, together, they fall.
“Don’t trust anyone who keep telling you what’s wrong with you,”
― Popisho
― Popisho
“Compassion was a kind of magic; listening was at least half the task.”
― Popisho
― Popisho
“Her heart, kept for so long in a little glass case, begins to open up, crack by crack.”
― The Moon Represents My Heart
― The Moon Represents My Heart
“I only had the morning to get my work done. I had to be really efficient. I'd let the others take the easy questions in class and wait to answer the hardest ones. I'm Asian and a woman, which shouldn't matter but did anyway. It was clear sometimes that no matter how hard I worked, I didn't qualify to be a member of the in club.”
― Searching for Sylvie Lee
― Searching for Sylvie Lee
“All the time she had been grasping the air with her hands, in an impassioned effort to express herself. 'Here was not just food, but an experience. It was all of Popisho, the smells and textures, it was - it was - all our love and our losses and our beauty, struggles, history, our childhoods ... it was perfect, it was perfect for me.”
― Popisho
― Popisho
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