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"Estoy volviendo a releer el libro en francés... es como si pudiera escuchar el eco de mi primera lectura traducida, de cómo leer el texto original desplaza las primeras percepciones y que mi imaginación ha absorbido miles de voces, la musicalidad de mi cotidianeidad de estos 21 meses que llevo aquí, de poder imaginarme ciertas geografías, siento mayor intimidad por un mundo compartido aunque aún no me pertenezca..." Jan 13, 2025 08:45AM

 
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""The diasporic challenges the idea of whole, integral, traditionally unchanging cultural identities. No identities survive the diasporic process intact and unchanged."" Sep 19, 2024 04:00PM

 
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Audre Lorde
“For to survive in the mouth of this dragon we call america, we have had to learn this first and most vital lesson - that we were never meant to survive. Not as human beings. And neither were most of you here today, Black or not. And that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength. Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak. We can sit in our corners mute forever while our sisters and our selves are wasted, while our children are distorted and destroyed, while our earth is poisoned; we can sit in our safe corners mute as bottles, and we will still be no less afraid.”
Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

James Baldwin
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
James Baldwin

Hanif Abdurraqib
“There is a way to read a poem, and then there is a way to allow the poem to exit the body and be read by everyone in the room.”
Hanif Abdurraqib, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest

Audre Lorde
“Despair and isolation are my greatest internal enemies. I need to remember I am not alone, even when it feels that way. Now more than ever it is time to put my solitary ways behind me, even while protecting my solitude.”
Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light

Gloria E. Anzaldúa
“Nobody’s going to save you.
No one’s going to cut you down
cut the thorns around you.
No one’s going to storm
the castle walls nor
kiss awake your birth,
climb down your hair,
nor mount you
onto the white steed.

There is no one who
will feed the yearning.
Face it. You will have
to do, do it yourself.”
Gloria Anzaldua

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