Zitat des Tages von Francisco Goldman:
You witness a lot as a journalist, and what you witness becomes a part of you.
I identify myself as what I am. I'm half Jewish, like Proust. I have no other way to put it.
My only way of processing anything for me is by writing.
I had one of those farcical bar mitzvahs where they spell out the words phonetically on index cards, and you don't even know what you're saying.
In U.S. discourse, immigrants are mostly represented as less than human, a policy problem, or as just that, a category, and categories are prisons.
I think the fact that my wife died in Mexico City makes it very important to me; my life went up in smoke at that moment, the family and the future we were going to have. At that point, I was anchored to the city in a way I've never been anchored to a place before.
When I see a blatant injustice, I can't keep quiet. I've been that way since I was a little kid.