Rebeca

“Quanto custava o amor?
O meu corpo, devagar, a minha terra. Materializei-me nela, e todos os dias voltava ao anoitecer à minha terra, e dela saía de manhã.”
― Isabela Figueiredo, Caderno de Memórias Coloniais

“We see so much sadness if we care to look.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Concrete

“The alternative to appropriation is a world in which artists only reference their own cultures."

"That's an oversimplification of the issue."

"The alternative to appropriation is a world where white European people make art about white European people with only white European references in it. Swap African or Asian or Latin or whatever culture you want for European. A world where everyone is blind and deaf to any culture or experience that is not their own. I hate that world don't you? I'm terrified of that world and I don't want to live in a that world, and as a mixed race person, I literally don't exist in it. My dad, who I barely knew, was Jewish. My mom was an American-born Korean. I was raised by Korean immigrant grandparents in Korea Town Los Angeles and as any mixed race person will tell you-- to be half of two things is to be whole of nothing.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Tirando a fantasia que nos arranca à escuridão parada dos dias sucedendo-se indistintamente, o que vale o tempo que nos foi dado ou que viemos procurar?”
― Isabela Figueiredo, A Gorda