You were my first grief. From the death of you, so intimate, so much an unexplained event of the universe, I made my first decision to live. (beginni… - Aurora Levins Morales

I have tried to integrate healing myself and healing the world.

We cannot be owned. We cannot own each other. And there is no such thing as a particle of US soil.

It's the perversion of sexuality that frightens me. It's the way the women around me exude a sexiness that has nothing to do with the heart. Of course Latin Women love as well as any other women... but while the chilliest Anglo-Saxon repression of sex pretends it simply doesn't exist, Latin repression says it's a filthy fact of life, use it for what it's worth... shake it in his face, wear it as a decoy. It's all over the floor and it's cold and savage. It's the hatred of the powerless, turned crooked.