[b]Viet Thanh Nguyen
Why do those who call for independence and freedom take away the independence and freedom of others?[/b]
Because they can?
We had not chosen to be debased by the French, to be divided by them into an unholy trinity of north, center, and south, to be turned over to the great powers of capitalism and communism for a further bisection, then given roles as the clashing armies of a Cold War chess match played in air-conditioned rooms by white men wearing suits and lies.
He thought, We don’t call it the Third World for nothing.
Unlike many, I was not intent on reproducing myself, deliberately or accidentally, since one of myself was more than enough for me to handle.
I hear that squared cubed.
I need not look in the mirror or at the faces of my fellow men to find a likeness to God. I need only look at their selves and inside my own to realize we would not be killers if God Himself was not one, too.
On the other hand, none of us were ever in God’s league.
Maybe Violet was stricken with colorblindness, the willful inability to distinguish between white and any other color, the only infirmity Americans wished for themselves.
With absolutely no exceptions of course.
To live was to be haunted by the inevitability of one’s own decay, and to be dead was to be haunted by the memory of living.
So, get plenty of practice.