Given the racist and patriarchal patterns of the state, it is difficult to envision the state as the holder of solutions to the problem of violence against women of color. However, as the anti-violence movement has been institutionalized and professionalized, the state plays an increasingly dominant role in how we conceptualize and create strategies to minimize violence against women.

If our government servants had to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as they have forced all of American business to do, they would be in jail.

Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.

Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.

Don't believe everything you think.

The one you can get mad at only for a short period because you have important stuff to tell them.

True friendship is when you walk into their house and your WiFi connects automatically.