Alicia Tapia

“Solitude and communion, individuality and universality are still the extremes that devour every Mexican. This conflict characterizes our most intimate selves and gives special color- alternately dark and bright- to our private conduct and our relationship with others; at the same time it has a profound effect on all our political, social and artistic efforts. Mexican life is a continual, lacerating swing between extremes, or else an unstable and painful equilibrium.”
― Octavio Paz

“I saw the surface of her, merely the outer shell, and realized that she was mere surface all the way to her core.”
― Percival Everett, James

“They make love that plants lehua, and they share pleasures that tease breaking waves out of a calm bay. To ho'āikāne in our mo'olelo is to enact all the possibilities of pleasure between our bodies and to learn from how 'āina grounds the pleasure to be shared and treasured between us.”
― Jamaica Osorio

“When bound and accountable to another, we are therefore also bound and accountable to each other's intimacies and accountabilities. Such relationships teach us that reciprocity and accountability matter and that intimacy is many bodied and overflowing. This is the ea of pilina.”
― Jamaica Osorio