Tina Chang > Quotes

“My mother was a mother of mothers,
modern before she was ancestral.
She was a woman who morphed into feline, back
to her human self before I woke each morning.”
― Tina Chang

“I chewed into the wreck of the world,
into the neckbone of the past that pursued me.
All the while, I moved toward extinction,
bearing the burden of damage, language of the protector.”
― Tina Chang

“Where does God live if not in the shadows
of struggle, marching next to the living,
with battlements and a slogan, knowing

faintly more than we do?”
― Tina Chang, Hybrida