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.

I'm lost. I'm going to find myself. If I return before I get back, please ask me to wait.

Sometimes the poorest woman leaves her children the richest inheritance.

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.

Fake friends are like shadows. They follow you in the sun and leave you in the dark.

If I were a flower.. I would be a sunflower. To always follow the sun, Turn my back to darkness, Stand proud, tall and straight even with my head full of seeds.

I believe in angels, the kind that heaven sends. I'm surrounded by angels, and I call them my best friends