Latine Quotes

“Same for the classic SF novels I grew up reading; Latinos weren't being written about, either. Did we die out in those futures? Did we not make it? Were we purposefully excluded?

Sometimes, we must write ourselves into the futures we want before we're left out of them by someone else.”
― Pedro Íñiguez, Mexicans on the Moon: Speculative Poetry from a Possible Future

“Per aspera ad astra”
― io e lui

“He only moved to his own impulses, leaving his wife a cold, lonely and withered woman. This bothered Clarita for years -- how her father treated her mother with a lack of emotion, of connection. Santos never beat her mother, but he would give her a devastating look that caused her to wilt like a water-starved flower. Clarita recalled how as a little girl, she hid away in her room, beneath blankets surrounded by dirt-caked dolls, distressed that Santos would come in and destroy her with such a look.”
― Luis J. Rodríguez, The Republic of East L.A.

“Something inside Rudy clambered to rise out of him, something alive and astonishing -- he hardly ever felt this way.”
― Luis J. Rodríguez, The Republic of East L.A.

“Bodies slumped outside
grungy, crumbling tenements,
brown skin fading into translucence;
molecular degradation,
they're becoming as invisible as they feel
to a failing nation.”
― Pedro Íñiguez, Mexicans on the Moon: Speculative Poetry from a Possible Future

“The train was moving so fast and I had not even agreed to step aboard.”
― Rudy Ruiz, The Border Between Us