Isabela Sperandio

“For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision and carry it through. This virtue, like most virtues, is ambiguity itself. People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. Their decisions are not really decisions at all—a real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things than can be named—but elaborate systems of evasion, of illusion, designed to make themselves and the world appear to be what they and the world are not. This is certainly what my decision, made so long ago in Joey’s bed, came to. I had decided to allow no room in the universe for something which shamed and frightened me. I succeeded very well—by not looking at the universe, by not looking at myself, by remaining, in effect, in constant motion.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“[C]olonization works to decivilize the colonizer, to brutalize him in the true sense of the word, to degrade him, to awaken him to buried instincts, to covetousness, violence, race hatred, and moral relativism.”
― Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism

“Amor será dar de presente a outro a própria solidão? Pois é a coisa mais última que se pode dar de si.”
― Clarice Lispector, Aprendizaje o El libro de los placeres

“A gente passa a vida pelejando com o dilema de existir ou desistir, com o que é bom e o que é ruim, o certo e o errado, a morte e a vida. Essas coisas não se separam. O lugar que dói é o mesmo que sente arrepios. É no corpo, no amor e na liberdade de escolher as coisas que a gente fica inteiro ou despedaçado. Então, pede para a parte boa dar conta da parte ruim.”
― Carla Madeira, Tudo é Rio