Marisabel

“To understand mom’s many tongues and therefore close the distance between myself and the people I loved and the people I was losing—most of all my mother. I wanted to arm myself against Western Art’s easy idiom, to master a more complex language, one that richly described my world.”
― Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language

“I feared that not crying meant I hadn’t loved them enough. Perhaps weeping and dancing live in the same place within us, and I had shuttered that part of me away. The part that touches grief, euphoria, and god. Without tears, I could never legitimately call them my losses, only ours.”
― Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language

“You don't notice erosion when it's happening.”
― Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language

“i found god in myself
and i loved her
i loved her fiercely”
― Ntozake Shange