We aren’t encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths.

Lately, Mami’s eyes have been so dark, I don’t like looking into them because I’m afraid I’ll fall in.

This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.

I wish she'd said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can't hide from it, not even here.

Globalization by the way of McDonald’s and KFC has captured the hearts, the minds, and from what I can see through the window, the growing bellies of the folks here.

A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.

Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady.