I was in a state of rage, also. I was so angry and I couldn't really explain why. I didn't have the language for it. And so I turned to what I knew, I remembered the kind of woman my mother had been - in a lot of ways, I was acting out, I was performing the same thing. (Jaquira Díaz)

I was in a state of rage, also. I was so angry and I couldn't really explain why. I didn't have the language for it. And so I turned to what I knew, I remembered the kind of woman my mother had been - in a lot of ways, I was acting out, I was performing the same thing.

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