Amy D.

“And I mean strode--like a man does, so different from how I normally walked. I focused on remembering the cadence of my steps, the swing of my arms, how my whole body moved through the world with unfeigned confidence, claiming the space I inhabited.”
― Erin Makela

“They had died so we might live, so our cause and country might live. And unless someone remembered them and told their story, their lives and sacrifices would be lost forever.”
― Erin Makela, Worthy of Trust: That Word Honor: Book I

“Remy ducked her head, and Jacatacqua shook hers. "We are human--man or woman should make no difference to what we can and cannot do."

"To women," Suzannah said, raising her cup of tea. "And what we can accomplish.”
― Erin Makela, Worthy of Trust: That Word Honor, Book 1

“most Latinos today can trace their genes to some variation of both Europeanness and Indigeneity. It means that many Latinos can pass as both “white” and “brown.” When the situation calls for it, they can prioritize their whiteness and erase the specificity of their Indigenousness. It means that even those generations of Latinos who have come of age in a United States that has systematically discriminated against them can still, somehow, legitimize their allegiance to white supremacy by way of their “Spanish blood.” It ultimately means that they can be a brown person in America yet look at themselves in the mirror and see a white, Spanish person in the reflection. In the end, that was what the Juan de Oñate statue that became a point of debate in 2020 represented to many Latinos: their ability to see their European reflection, to fantasize about who they were and who they aspired to be.”
― Paola Ramos, Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America