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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
"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
""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
“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.”
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“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.”
― A Burst of Light
― A Burst of Light
“Dr. King's policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That's very good. He only made one fallacious assumption: In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.”
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“Each of us struggles daily with the pressures of conformity and the loneliness of difference from which those choices seem to offer escape.”
― The Cancer Journals
― The Cancer Journals
“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.”
―
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.”
―
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