“ Did we salivate for sadness, or had we only learned to enjoy what we were forced to eat? Viet Thanh Nguyen
“ Country music was the most segregated kind of music in America, where even whites played jazz and even blacks sang in the opera. Something like country music was what lynch mobs must have enjoyed whil… Viet Thanh Nguyen
“ You tried to play the game, okay? But they run the game. You don't run anything. That means you can't change anything. Not from the inside. When you got nothing, you got to change things from the outs… Viet Thanh Nguyen
“ Before I only wanted to change the world. I still want that, but it was ironic how I never wanted to change myself. Yet that's where revolutions start! And it's the only way revolutions can continue,… Viet Thanh Nguyen
“ He responded with one of those looks of pity and amusement I was by now so used to getting, the kind that implied not only was my fly undone, but that there was nothing to see even if it was. Viet Thanh Nguyen
“ This feat I also had no idea how to accomplish, but ignorance had never stopped me from taking action before. Viet Thanh Nguyen
“ As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who wanted to participate in history could escape. The major had the right to live, and I… Viet Thanh Nguyen
