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To explain how hard it was/is to live in a new place as an immigrant with an uncommon name, especially during childhood, she uses her own experiences to do so.

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"It’s like adding a few new spices to the kitchen pantry. "

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"This decision serves as proof that sometimes simplifying one’s life in the short run only complicates it in the long run. "

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""It was like having X-ray glasses,"

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To explain how frustrating growing up with her mother who didn't speak prefect English was; however growing up and realizing her English wasn't broken.

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" I spend a great deal of time thinking about the power of language... "

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"Language is the tool of my trade."

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"Like others, I have described it to people as 'broken" or "fractured" English."

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Expressing the point of view of a black man facing discrimination with his own, personal stories.

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" As I swung onto the avenue behind her, there seemed to be a discreet, uninflammatory distance between us "

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" It was in the echo of that terrified woman's footfalls that I first began to know the unwieldy inheritance I'd come into – the ability to alter public space in ugly ways. "

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" It was in the echo of that terrified woman's footfalls that I first began to know the unwieldy inheritance I'd come into – the ability to alter public space in ugly ways. "