Anna

“I’d honestly rather swallow a razor blade than be expected to change the mind of a xenophobe.”
― Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans

“I wanted to cry but did not yet know how to in English. So I did nothing.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“There is freedom in coming and going for no other reason than because you can. There is freedom in choosing to sit and be still when everything is always telling you to move, move fast.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“I think every immigrant in this country knows that you can eat English and digest it so well that you shit it out, and to some people, you will still not speak English.”
― Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans