“maybe you don’t have to want to set roots somewhere, unless that’s what you want. I was running in the neighborhood a few months ago, the neighborhood I was born and raised in, and was reflecting on the length and depth of my relationship with this place… and it made me think of trees and birds. How trees always stay in one place and have an experience of seeing a place change, things come and go, things die and transform and be born, all in one fixed location. that’s beautiful. then there are birds. birds fly and move and migrate and seek beauty and safety and experience in the process of moving through space and time. birds migrate and they always come back to their place of origin with new wisdom and experiences. that’s also very beautiful. both experiences are necessary. and they the birds and trees have a ongoing relationship - they tell each other about their experiences and share the wisdom of their journeys because a bird can’t know what it’s like to be a tree, and a tree can’t know what it’s like to be a bird.”
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June 2013
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April 2013
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“A lot of people don’t like me for the very reason some people love me—I made it out of the ghetto,” she replies. “[My critics] are usually the people who didn’t grow up in the hood, who think that there should be no intermixing between Mexican and American ideas. But you know what? I’m tired of uppity people who try to sing banda and corridos. They don’t even know what it is being in the hood, what it is growing up poor. They don’t realize that that’s how my generation grew up. And my generation is the majority [of Latinos] in this country.”
— Jenni Rivera
March 2013
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“
You start dying slowly
if you do not travel,
if you do not read,
If you do not listen to the sounds of life,
If you do not appreciate yourself.
You start dying slowly
When you kill your self-esteem;
When you do not let others help you.
You start dying slowly
If you become a slave of your habits,
Walking everyday on the same paths…
If you do not change your routine,
If you do not wear different colours
Or you do not speak to those you don’t know.
You start dying slowly
If you avoid to feel passion
And their turbulent emotions;
Those which make your eyes glisten
And your heart beat fast.
You start dying slowly
If you do not change your life when you are not satisfied with your job, or with your love,
If you do not risk what is safe for the uncertain,
If you do not go after a dream,
If you do not allow yourself,
At least once in your lifetime,
To run away from sensible advice…
February 2013
7 posts
“
Racism is like a Cadillac, they bring out a new model every year.
- Malcolm X
” —January 2013
4 posts
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