# Quote — Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings

> I have to address whiteness because Asian Americans have yet to truly reckon with where we stand in the capitalist white supremacist hierarchy of this country.

- Author: [Cathy Park Hong](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cathy-park-hong.md)
- Book: [Minor Feelings](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cathy-park-hong/minor-feelings.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cathy_Park_Hong#%22The_End_of_White_Innocence%22) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/cathy-park-hong/minor-feelings/i-have-to-address

## More from this book

> I’d rather be indebted than be the kind of white man who thinks the world owes him, because to live an ethical life is to be held accountable to history.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cathy-park-hong/minor-feelings/id-rather-be-indebted.md)

> Because I didn't learn the language until I started school, I associated English with everything hard: the chalkboard with diagrammed sentences, the syllables in my mouth like hard slippery marbles. English was not an expression of me but a language that was out to get me, threaded with invisible trip wires that could expose me at the slightest misstep.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cathy-park-hong/minor-feelings/because-i-didnt.md)

> When I hear the phrase “Asians are next in line to be white,” I replace the word “white” with “disappear.” Asians are next in line to disappear.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cathy-park-hong/minor-feelings/when-i-hear.md)