Cathy

“Ivy’s baby has regained her vision, but nobody knows what the long-term effects of the water poisoning will be in her little body. The wait is torturous for Ivy. It is torturous for her mom. It is torturous for the community. It is not torturous for the government. They want us all dead, Latinxs, black people, they want us dead, and sometimes they’ll slip something into our bloodstreams to kill us slowly and sometimes they’ll shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot shoot and shoot until their bloodlust is satisfied and it’s all the same, our pastors will say god has a plan for us and our parents will plead with the Lord until the end to give them an answer.”
― Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans

“I've got to learn something from my mistakes instead of establishing a new record to break.”
― Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist

“the word silence is still a sound, to speak is in itself to imagine knowing; and to no longer know, it would be necessary to no longer speak”
― Georges Bataille, Inner Experience

“Not that writing on my notepads managed to actually empty my mind - though some would argue - but I was grateful to relieve the overflow.”
― Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist