“you go to college and take your ethnic studies classes, you know, and you start to read the literature that first came from the experience. it actually is a literature that defines difference as only one thing. it’s because of the color of your skin, or of your sexual orientation. and we all know, we all know that our lives are not defined by one thing. so once we finally have even access to literature that begins to speaks to our experience or to us, it is actually a literature that does us a disservice, in many ways. because it ignores everything else that makes up a full human being. you know, and i really do feel that one of the things that i want to do with my writing is to oddly just to introduce the idea of humanity back into people who are supposed to be of a particular minority group. somehow we’ve become one-dimensional in our own literature.”
— monique truong. interview here. (via funksflo)
(via nikiesco)
