“Everyone sees race, Lex," said Moody. "The only difference is who pretends not to.” — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
There's this sense that whiteness is the default and does not need to be questioned. That you've got a race if you're… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
I think, in the United States, we talk about race as a black and white issue... We're generally talking about it as… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“Maybe at birth everyone should be given to a family of a different race to be raised. Maybe that would solve racism… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
I don't think I know a single person who's a minority who hasn't experienced some form of discrimination at one time or… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“Ed Lim’s daughter, Monique, was a junior now, but as she’d grown up, he and his wife had noted with dismay that… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
I am in a mixed race marriage myself, and I have a mixed race son....The racial perception interest is probably always going… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
What I remember about race relations in the 1990s is that you showed your awareness by saying you didn't see race, that… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“Asian men could be socially inept and incompetent and ridiculous, like a Long Duk Dong, or at best unthreatening and slightly buffoonish,… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“I mean, that’s the future, isn’t it? In the future we’ll all be able to look past race.” — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
When you mention to people growing up in Cleveland they bring up the river catching on fire, or LeBron James leaving, they have these… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
It's so easy, as a writer, to get stuck in your own head, to live in the little worlds you create. To forget that… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“All up and down the street the houses looked like any others—but inside them were people who might be happy, or taking refuge, or… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
No reader wants to sit through the same scene four times in a row, unless they're radically different. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Debut novels are difficult because nobody knows you... they just don't find a huge audience, because that's how the market works. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
We have to figure out why we see the world in different ways and then how are we going to adjust so that we… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“I have measured my life with coffee spoons and do I dare to eat a peach?' 'DO I DARE DISTURB THE UNIVERSE?” — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“No one, she had learned from experience, could stand such silence for long. If you waited long enough, someone would start talking, and more… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“Most of the time, everyone deserves more than one chance. We all do things we regret now and then. You just have to carry… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“Though she would never quite articulate it this way, resentment began to sheathe concern. ANGER IS FEAR'S BODYGUARD, a poster in the hospital hard… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Spend too much time alone with your own words, and your writing grows anemic, in dire need of a transfusion. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“Everyone sees race, Lex," said Moody. "The only difference is who pretends not to.” — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
