"My Virgen de Guadalupe is not the mother of God. She is God. She is a face for a god without a face, an indigena for a god without ethnicity, a female deity for a god who is genderless, but I also understand that for her to approach me, for me to finally open the door and accept her, she had to be a woman like me."

-- Sandra Cisneros

#Mother Quotes #Ethnicity Quotes #Doors Quotes

“Whiteness in a racist, corporate-controlled society is like having the image of an American Express Cardstamped on one's face: immediately you are â€œuniversally accepted.â€”
“I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be.”
“An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.”

Source : Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.3, Cosimo, Inc.
“The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.”
“One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her~is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?”
“I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then take it up again.”
“Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.”
“There's times to be dainty and times to be a pig.”

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