Elena

“I never learned hate at home or shame. I had to go to school for that.”
― Dick Gregory

“My mother says when I get older my dusty hair will settle and my blouse will learn to stay clean, but I have decided not to grow up tame like the others who lay their necks on the threshold waiting for the ball and chain…I have begun my own quiet war. Simple. Sure. I am the one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate.”
― SandraCisneros

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
― E.M. Forster

“The problem with the police is not that they are fascist pigs but that our country is ruled by majoritarian pigs.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me