aswang

“my mother
sensed a
war in her
womb,
and so she
raised me
to fight.”
― hafsa atique birth of a daughter

“Everybody has their sadness. And most people are scared of it.”
― Mary Gaitskill, Bad Behavior

“And it's inside myself that I must create someone who will understand.”
― Clarice Lispector

“Racism didn't magically go away just because we refuse to talk about it. Rather, overt racial language is replaced by covert racial euphemisms that reference the same phenomena-talk of "niggers" and "ghettos" becomes replaced by phrases such as "urban," "welfare mothers," and "street crime." Everyone knows what these terms mean, and if they don't, they quickly figure it out.”
― Patricia Hill Collins, On Intellectual Activism