“We all like to believe that our world has clear heroes and villains and that the heroes are going to save us after all, but that’s not the reality.”

— Nanfu Wang

Source: "It Didn’t Take Long for Me to Feel Empathy: Nanfu Wang on In the Same Breath" in Roger Ebert https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/it-didnt-take-long-for-me-to-feel-empathy-nanfu-wang-on-in-the-same-breath (17 August 2021)

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