Lois

“People on the streets are dehumanized the same way settlers dehumanized the Indigenous, to steal the land of abundance at gunpoint, to tax the land to the fullest.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“Men only have it all by being willing to take from others. To ruin lives, to oppress.”
― Adriana Herrera, An Island Princess Starts a Scandal

“It’s the same as Scots English,” she explained. “It’s not your tongue, it was forced on you, and like your whisky you’ve blended it into something that’s your own. Anyone who hears a Scotsman speak recognizes the sound. We’ve made this language that was imposed on us ours too. When I speak, West Africa is on my tongue, Taino is on my tongue. Castilians have their Spanish, and we have our own.”
― Adriana Herrera, A Caribbean Heiress in Paris: A Novel

“Colored enslaved women are no concubines. She has no choice but to accept his rape...”
― Vanessa Riley, Sister Mother Warrior