Dominican men are told to look at women all the time, but they're definitely not told to see them.
Privilege does not operate without silence.
I think men spend so much time passing for being men.
Know that in this world there's somebody who will always love you.
Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.
So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-dude who, you know, was supposed to have as many girls as possible and work until your heart exploded, have no fear, you know.