LaBae

“There's the potentiality for other choices to be made in how we relate to discomfort. When there is space around the difficulty, we have agency.”
― Pamela Ayo Yetunde, Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom

“know that when I die somebody’s going to sell my flesh on the black market, one of my awful distant relatives. That’s why I smoke and drink, so I taste bitter and no one gets any pleasure out of my death.” She takes a quick drag and says, “Today I’m the butcher, tomorrow I might be the cattle.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“there are words that cover up the world.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“He tried to hate all of humanity for being so fragile and ephemeral but he couldn't keep it up because hating everyone is the same as hating no one.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Cadáver exquisito