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" When I look around the church and none of the depictions of angels or Jesus or Mary, not one of the disciples look like me: morenita and big and angry. When I’m told to have faith in the father the son in men​and men are the first ones to make me feel so small. "

Elizabeth Acevedo , The Poet X


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Elizabeth Acevedo quote : When I look around the church and none of the depictions of angels or Jesus or Mary, not one of the disciples look like me: morenita and big and angry. When I’m told to have faith in the father the son in men​and men are the first ones to make me feel so small.