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Phuc Tran Quote: “The logic, though simple, was airtight. Ask a Nazi, punch a Nazi. Whack-A-Mole fascism.”

1. “The logic, though simple, was airtight. Ask a Nazi, punch a Nazi. Whack-A-Mole fascism.”

Phuc Tran Quote: “If you catch me in my off-guard moments, I’ll tell you that at some points in my life, I wanted to be white. It’s not a proud feeling, but it’s not a feeling that comes from the shame of being brown. It’s a tired feeling. Tired of the crushing racism. Tired of not belonging. It’s the exhaustion from fighting for your right to exist.”

2. “If you catch me in my off-guard moments, I’ll tell you that at some points in my life, I wanted to be white. It’s not a proud feeling, but it’s not a feeling that comes from the shame of being brown. It’s a tired feeling. Tired of the crushing racism. Tired of not belonging. It’s the exhaustion from fighting for your right to exist.”

Phuc Tran Quote: “My father loved the library because it was a safe haven for him – no missed cultural cues, no bigoted insults from his coworkers, no glaring reminders of what was lost. All patrons of the library were pilgrims to the oracle all seeking the sake thing: knowledge. And in their pursuits of the same thing, they were all equals.”

3. “My father loved the library because it was a safe haven for him – no missed cultural cues, no bigoted insults from his coworkers, no glaring reminders of what was lost. All patrons of the library were pilgrims to the oracle all seeking the sake thing: knowledge. And in their pursuits of the same thing, they were all equals.”

Phuc Tran Quote: “Old water. New Water. Old country. New country. Aqua vitae. Giver of life. Destroyer of memories.”

4. “Old water. New Water. Old country. New country. Aqua vitae. Giver of life. Destroyer of memories.”

Phuc Tran Quote: “Maybe my dad was right: Maybe I was too sensitive. You people wasn’t always a secret way of saying something bigoted. But I had heard it from a mechanic. I had heard it from a University of Pennsylvania alumnus. I had heard it from my father. In those instances, there lurked a subtle judgement about non-white races, yet I couldn’t quite articulate it.”

5. “Maybe my dad was right: Maybe I was too sensitive. You people wasn’t always a secret way of saying something bigoted. But I had heard it from a mechanic. I had heard it from a University of Pennsylvania alumnus. I had heard it from my father. In those instances, there lurked a subtle judgement about non-white races, yet I couldn’t quite articulate it.”

Phuc Tran Quote: “The dictionary had all the other words that we had looked up, and it never occurred to either of us that Wookiee was a made-up word, because who would make up a word? Wasn’t the point of writing to use real words?”

6. “The dictionary had all the other words that we had looked up, and it never occurred to either of us that Wookiee was a made-up word, because who would make up a word? Wasn’t the point of writing to use real words?”

Phuc Tran Quote: “To me, it was the most obvious thing that I could have been thankful for. My grandparents- who spoke no English, who had fled Vietnam on a stolen boat- had bested my classmates’ new puppies and Disney World vacations and ski weekends.”

7. “To me, it was the most obvious thing that I could have been thankful for. My grandparents- who spoke no English, who had fled Vietnam on a stolen boat- had bested my classmates’ new puppies and Disney World vacations and ski weekends.”

Phuc Tran Quote: “Do we want words to be powerful or powerless? We can’t have it both ways. If we want them to be powerful, we have to act and speak accordingly, handling our words with the fastidious faith that they can do immeasurable good or irreparable harm. But if we want to say whatever we want – if we want to loose whatever words fly into our minds – then we render words powerless, ineffectual, and meaningless, like the playground bromide of “sticks and stones.”

8. “Do we want words to be powerful or powerless? We can’t have it both ways. If we want them to be powerful, we have to act and speak accordingly, handling our words with the fastidious faith that they can do immeasurable good or irreparable harm. But if we want to say whatever we want – if we want to loose whatever words fly into our minds – then we render words powerless, ineffectual, and meaningless, like the playground bromide of “sticks and stones.”

Phuc Tran Quote: “I began to wonder why I felt like I had to choose one thing over another. I was all of these things. I was a plurality. And I was one thing, one word. I was who I said I was. I had said to Professor Slotten: I’m Phuc. I circled back to my name, the only Phuc I had ever met and the only noun I had for who I was.”

9. “I began to wonder why I felt like I had to choose one thing over another. I was all of these things. I was a plurality. And I was one thing, one word. I was who I said I was. I had said to Professor Slotten: I’m Phuc. I circled back to my name, the only Phuc I had ever met and the only noun I had for who I was.”

Phuc Tran Quote: “As I read, I began to understand that all the great works wrangled with big questions, important questions: our place in the world, the value of our experience, the fairness and meaning of our suffering, our quest for love and belonging.”

10. “As I read, I began to understand that all the great works wrangled with big questions, important questions: our place in the world, the value of our experience, the fairness and meaning of our suffering, our quest for love and belonging.”

Phuc Tran Quote: “Was this the real me? Stripped of the ability to look like a punk- what defined me as one? Not my jacket. Not my clothes. My friends? My enemies? No. What I did determined who I was, not what I looked like or what I liked. My actions and reactions. Did I emerge from the shell? I felt naked and free. Was I now pupa or chrysalis? I felt like myself- and that was what punk was. The freedom to be who I was unapologetically, even if I hadn’t chosen it.”

11. “Was this the real me? Stripped of the ability to look like a punk- what defined me as one? Not my jacket. Not my clothes. My friends? My enemies? No. What I did determined who I was, not what I looked like or what I liked. My actions and reactions. Did I emerge from the shell? I felt naked and free. Was I now pupa or chrysalis? I felt like myself- and that was what punk was. The freedom to be who I was unapologetically, even if I hadn’t chosen it.”

Phuc Tran Quote: “They dubbed cassettes were the links of our friendship, and we forged them, one clacky plastic square at a time. One of us would buy a cassette or LP and dub it for someone else, and on we would pass the album, pooling our resources- our own teenage Marxist collective.”

12. “They dubbed cassettes were the links of our friendship, and we forged them, one clacky plastic square at a time. One of us would buy a cassette or LP and dub it for someone else, and on we would pass the album, pooling our resources- our own teenage Marxist collective.”

Phuc Tran Quote: “Symbolism in our waking Jungian dream was a two-way mirror. We were symbols for our American neighbors, but out neighbors- with their polished cars, grand homes, backyard swing sets- they symbolized something for us, too. They glittered as goals, mirages toward which we endlessly stumbled.”

13. “Symbolism in our waking Jungian dream was a two-way mirror. We were symbols for our American neighbors, but out neighbors- with their polished cars, grand homes, backyard swing sets- they symbolized something for us, too. They glittered as goals, mirages toward which we endlessly stumbled.”

Phuc Tran Quote: “In my editorial, the takeaway was so palatable: racists were bad people, bad apples in the barrel. But bad apples were easy to spot. What Malcolm X was suggesting was that it was the whole barrel – America – that was the problem, but my teenage brain rejected that notion immediately. I didn’t want to believe that the barrel itself was rotten because I was in that same barrel.”

14. “In my editorial, the takeaway was so palatable: racists were bad people, bad apples in the barrel. But bad apples were easy to spot. What Malcolm X was suggesting was that it was the whole barrel – America – that was the problem, but my teenage brain rejected that notion immediately. I didn’t want to believe that the barrel itself was rotten because I was in that same barrel.”

Phuc Tran Quote: “It felt like the opening line to life’s little joke: an immigrant with a law degree walks into a tire factory to work a blue-collar job in a small town.”

15. “It felt like the opening line to life’s little joke: an immigrant with a law degree walks into a tire factory to work a blue-collar job in a small town.”

Phuc Tran Quote: “When we got home to Carlisle, I put my Mets hat in my closet, ignoring Lou’s endearing request that we wear the hats to match. I didn’t want to look exactly like Lou. Two more Asian kids in New York baseball caps. It’s how they already saw us- we just had to look at the movies.”

16. “When we got home to Carlisle, I put my Mets hat in my closet, ignoring Lou’s endearing request that we wear the hats to match. I didn’t want to look exactly like Lou. Two more Asian kids in New York baseball caps. It’s how they already saw us- we just had to look at the movies.”

Phuc Tran Quote: “Teenagers and truck drivers: We’re all on our way to somewhere else.”

17. “Teenagers and truck drivers: We’re all on our way to somewhere else.”

Phuc Tran Quote: “I didn’t need to linger on the rednecks- they harassed us regularly- and I was thankful that I had my friends to back me up, not that I would tell them that. We misfit boys had only two settings: cool or angry. We were trapped by our own scripts, unable to publicly show excitement or fear or sadness.”

18. “I didn’t need to linger on the rednecks- they harassed us regularly- and I was thankful that I had my friends to back me up, not that I would tell them that. We misfit boys had only two settings: cool or angry. We were trapped by our own scripts, unable to publicly show excitement or fear or sadness.”

Phuc Tran Quote: “A teenage boy who liked existentialism? She might as well have said that chocolate was delicious or Freddie Mercury had a nice falsetto or Dickens was wordy.”

19. “A teenage boy who liked existentialism? She might as well have said that chocolate was delicious or Freddie Mercury had a nice falsetto or Dickens was wordy.”

Phuc Tran Quote: “Could you love reading and still love punk? I had assumed that you couldn’t be a skate punk and geek out on books, but Philip had changed that perspective. I had wanted to ensure that I would fit in, and suppressed my nerdiness as anathema to punk rock. But Philip had obliterated that premise in an instant with a copy of The Stranger. Maybe this was my opportunity to be regarded as someone different, more interesting and complicated than the Vietnamese kid or a skate punk.”

20. “Could you love reading and still love punk? I had assumed that you couldn’t be a skate punk and geek out on books, but Philip had changed that perspective. I had wanted to ensure that I would fit in, and suppressed my nerdiness as anathema to punk rock. But Philip had obliterated that premise in an instant with a copy of The Stranger. Maybe this was my opportunity to be regarded as someone different, more interesting and complicated than the Vietnamese kid or a skate punk.”

Phuc Tran Quote: “The vessel of my heart couldn’t hold both my rage for my father and my love for my mother. Like glass subjected to heat and cold, I cracked.”

21. “The vessel of my heart couldn’t hold both my rage for my father and my love for my mother. Like glass subjected to heat and cold, I cracked.”

Phuc Tran Quote: “I mouthed the name. Fook? It didn’t feel like Fuhp... No one said fook within the confines of our apartment. My parents and grandparents would never say it this way. Fook didn’t exist except for out there, on the other side of our green hollow-core door. Fook was out there. Int he real world. In America. In the real America. I had to get used to him.”

22. “I mouthed the name. Fook? It didn’t feel like Fuhp... No one said fook within the confines of our apartment. My parents and grandparents would never say it this way. Fook didn’t exist except for out there, on the other side of our green hollow-core door. Fook was out there. Int he real world. In America. In the real America. I had to get used to him.”

Phuc Tran Quote: “Camus writes that in the midst of the plague, as the citizens of Oran are dying in droves, Dr. Rieux affirms himself in his work. What do you do have control over? And what is beyond your control? As Camus’s protagonist, Dr. Rieux offers an answer: when the world is coming apart, you do your job.”

23. “Camus writes that in the midst of the plague, as the citizens of Oran are dying in droves, Dr. Rieux affirms himself in his work. What do you do have control over? And what is beyond your control? As Camus’s protagonist, Dr. Rieux offers an answer: when the world is coming apart, you do your job.”

Phuc Tran Quote: “But if I allowed myself to be harmed by words, I was showing them that I belonged at least by virtue of understanding their language. And all I wanted was to belong.”

24. “But if I allowed myself to be harmed by words, I was showing them that I belonged at least by virtue of understanding their language. And all I wanted was to belong.”

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