Sara

“And yet the world we live in—its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence—is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.”
― Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

“My work on Orange has taught me this: Human beings are not categorically bad because of their mistakes. They can learn from their errors and get back on track. No one should be forever written off because of one part of his or her history.”
― Diane Guerrero, In the Country We Love: My Family Divided

“(once upon an afternoon
i became still-life
i carried a balloon
and a long black knife.)”
― Sonia Sanchez, Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems