Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed Quotes

“...because sometimes we are from where we were least dead and not where we were born.”
― Julian Randall, Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora

“Self-love is no longer a luxury meant only for a privileged few. I am trying to save my life every day. I value it too much not to try.”
― Saraciea J. Fennell, Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora

“Invisibility can be suffocating. Invisibility can be your only refuge. Like every refuge, invisibility can be taken away. The consequence of being seen is that you're seen.”
― Julian Randall, Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora

“You fall in love. He is Latino like you. You will be together for years. And even when it falls apart, it still feels like a success. (Much later, of course.) Because until it happened, and until it ended, you didn't know it was possible to be loved like that.”
― Mark Oshiro, Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora

“I wish they could understand what I know—willful ignorance is violent.”
― Saraciea J. Fennell, Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora

“I used to think that neglecting to remember details about a person belonged to a minor class of offenses, like mixing up a name or forgetting someone’s trade. It belied a lack of attention. What is the harm, after all, of someone mistaking you for a virgin? But unawareness is not the same as refusing to see. There is plenty of harm in looking in a person’s direction and blurring your eyes until you see what you want to see, or until you see nothing at all.”
― Saraciea J. Fennell, Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora

“I didn’t know back then, but I know now, this is how the worst of whiteness works. Insults are tied up in acts of kindness. Judgments are laced under cover of benevolence. No harm done is ever done on purpose. There is an excuse for everything”
― Saraciea J. Fennell, Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora