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Let's get one thing straight. Puerto Rico was parda, negra, mulata, mestiza. Not a country of Spaniards at all. We outnumbered them, year after year.

— Aurora Levins Morales Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of Puertorriquenas (1997)

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Every vital social movement immediately begins to generate art-songs, poetry, posters, murals, novels-an outpouring of the creativity that people will create from even the smallest crumbs of hope.

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There is nothing as sustaining as legacy, as fore-mothers on whose lives we can build.

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The denial of our interrelatedness is killing this planet and too many of its people.

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

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