Mateo

“It is within our differences that we are both most powerful and most vulnerable, and some of the most difficult tasks of our lives are the claiming of differences and learning to use those differences for bridges rather than as barriers between us.”
― Audre Lorde, The Selected Works of Audre Lorde

“What if it had been the act of loving— the moving through life while loving, the way of seeing myself while loving, the splendid shapes love makes of the world, the way it takes the mundane and twists it into something altogether worthier?”
― John Paul Brammer, Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons

“Let the world
have its way with you,
luminous as it is with mystery
and pain—
graced as it is
with the ordinary.”
― Mary Oliver, Red Bird

“I walk on the ground and the ground’s walked on by me, I breathe the air and change it, I am entirely interconnected with the world.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven