Vanessa Barrera

“I light a smoke and tell myself stories that I hope will keep me sane.”
― Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., Sacred Smokes

“Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.”
― Angela Davis

“I am therefore against all organized religion," he went on. "Too often in history, men have followed the cry of battle rather than the cry of truth.”
― William Hermanns, Einstein and the Poet--In search of the Cosmic Man

“Truth has no path, and that is the beauty of truth, it is living. A dead thing has a path to it because it is static, but when you see that the truth is something living, moving, which has no resting place, which is in no temple, mosque or church, which no religion, no teacher, no philosopher, nobody can lead you to - then you will also see that this living thing is what you actually are.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known