Lis > Lis's Quotes

“I’d honestly rather swallow a razor blade than be expected to change the mind of a xenophobe.”
― Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans

“I personally subscribe to Dr. King’s definition of an unjust law as being ‘out of harmony with the moral law.’ And the higher moral law here is that people have a human right to move, to change location, if they experience hunger, poverty, violence, or lack of opportunity, especially if that climate in their home countries is created by the United States, as is the case with most third world countries from which people migrate. Ain’t that ’bout a bitch.”
― Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans

“Our daughter was stalked, preyed upon, and assaulted by a grown man. This is when we need our village the most.”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, Grown

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron