Theempathogen

“Napoleon said, “The main use of religion is to keep the common people from murdering the rich.”
― Garrison Keillor, The Lake Wobegon Virus

“Because everyone knows yellow pain, pressed into American letters, turns into gold. Our sorrow Midas touched. Napalm with a rainbow afterglow. Unlike feelings, blood gets realer when you feel it. I'm trying to be real but it costs too much.”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

“How else do we return to ourselves but to fold
The page so it points to the good part”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

“Sometimes we also find a tendency to view everything that's indigenous as good and anything "European"-such as Spain-as evil. That view overlooks such historical realities as the Aztec empire's oppressive domination of other indigenous societies and its class system, which privileged priests and the military. That view also forgets Spain was not a typically European nation after 600 years of rule by the Moors, an Arab/Berber people from Africa.”
― Elizabeth Martínez, De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century