Mason

“The hostility of the Christian churches to the Sun Dance was not very logical. After all, they worship Christ because he suffered for the people, and a similar religious concept lies behind the Sun Dance, where the paticipants pierce their flesh with skewers to help someone dear to them. The main difference, as Lame Deer used to say, is that Christians are content to let Jesus do all the suffering for them whereas Indians give of their own flesh, year after year, to help others.”
― Mary Crow Dog, Lakota Woman

“Now and then
I walk backwards.
It is my way of remembering.
If I only walked forward,
I could tell you
about forgetting.”
― Humberto Ak'abal

“How could we recognise, without being ashamed, that we liked to play card games, that we did it when there were hours to kill, yes, playing over and over, surrendered compulsively to a fervour that was so, so banal.”
― Diamela Eltit, Jamás el fuego nunca

“It seemed to me that the institution of religion was as fickle and divisive as the institution that enacts anti-immigration laws, both separating families on earth as it is in heaven”
― Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez, My Side of the River