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“On autumn night, in some parts of the city, the wind from the lake brings a sweetish smell to shore. An odor like crystallized ginger, or sweet ice tea with a dark clove floating in it.” Sooo dreamy 🤍

“How could they miss us? We were the horses they rode, we were the wheels of their family pride. We were the springs their drank, and our lives went down their throats. Our touch was in every single thing they saw..” -Aurora Levins Morales re: the spanish to puertorriqueños. powerful short story that reclaims/separates PR from Spain while highlighting the effects of colonialism on PR & surrounding islands 💔

“The bulk of migrants prefer a short journey over a long one...Thus the Great Migration had more in common with the vast movements of refugees from famine, war, and genocide in other parts of the world, where oppressed people...go great distances, journey across rivers, deserts, and oceans...with the hope that life will be better wherever they land.”