Daisy Hernandez Quotes

#1. We are taught that these are dualisms: Jewish/Arab, public/private, visible/invisible, Black/white, privilege/oppression, pride/shame. But these are false separations that don't exist.

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#2. It is an empty room, that afterwards, a soledad, and it sits there at the center of a person's life and waits to be filled.

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#3. Feminism is comprised of values that are important to you as a woman, not ideals arrived at by forced consensus to which you should adjust your own life.

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#4. Love will work no matter what job i have, what nationality I claim, or what street i live on. It will work even if i kiss a woman. and it does.

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#5. Two women in love confirms for me that there is a love that can push you beyond what everyone else says is possible. I

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#6. Forgiveness and faith are like writing a story. They take time, effort, revisions. When

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#7. As much as I hate to admit it, books have limitations. Over

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#8. My future is always plural. It is always about my mother and my father and my aunties and my sister.

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#9. More often than not, I find identity politics to be defined narrowly in progressive circles. This can limit our work to build coalitions and solidarity across communities and movements because this leads us to simply replicate all that we want to eradicate in the world.

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#10. By virtue of their English and the light color of their faces, these teachers determine the words that creep into my dreams at night. I envy them. I want what they have. I want my words to matter.

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