The Breaks Quotes

“How we are perceived is often misaligned with how we feel, or how we desire to be seen.”
― julietta Singh, The Breaks: An Essay

“All we knew of ourselves is that, as mixed bodies, we belonged nowhere and to nothing”
― Julietta Singh, The Breaks: An Essay

“Words, I explained, were not bad in and of themselves, but carried histories that require attentiveness and sensitivity.”
― Julietta Singh, The Breaks: An Essay

“History has shown that few of us who benefit from the order of things are willing to compromise what we have for the good of the whole.”
― Julietta Singh, The Breaks: An Essay

“I felt outraged by the law, not only designed around the protection of whiteness but around a reproductive, nuclear family unit that entirely narrows the ethical frame. A punitive system that encourages us to stay small and bounded in our ethical horizons, obliged to protect only what we possess.”
― Julietta Singh, The Breaks: An Essay