Stephanie Boedecker

“When our mothers visit American supermarkets for the first time, we watch as they marvel at aisles of gleaming food, seemingly magical in their limitlessness. Pineapples all year round?! (Because what is more American than excess, than not being subject to - than being above - the laws of nature, the changing seasons?)”
― Daphne Palasi Andreades, Brown Girls

“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”
― Anthony Bourdain, No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach

“Already, men scheme for new lands beyond our planet, surfaces and moons to mine and profit from, to colonize and populate without a single glance at the place they’ve left burning. Earth, an abandoned mother”
― Daphne Palasi Andreades, Brown Girls

“If you're happy in a dream, does that count?”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things