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Top 25 Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Quotes (2025 Update)

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Quote: “In our community, there is an ingrained idea that if you are sick, it’s a weakness, a symptom of our internalized bootstraps mythology.”

1. “In our community, there is an ingrained idea that if you are sick, it’s a weakness, a symptom of our internalized bootstraps mythology.”

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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Quote: “What kills us is loneliness. I feel lonely even in a room full of people. I feel destabilizing anxiety and pain. Doctors say I don’t have anything, but I know I’m sick.”

2. “What kills us is loneliness. I feel lonely even in a room full of people. I feel destabilizing anxiety and pain. Doctors say I don’t have anything, but I know I’m sick.”

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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Quote: “I’d drunk the social mobility Kool-Aid from college prep programs run by white people when I was in high school and didn’t know how to reconcile all that with what I was seeing in Flint.”

3. “I’d drunk the social mobility Kool-Aid from college prep programs run by white people when I was in high school and didn’t know how to reconcile all that with what I was seeing in Flint.”

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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Quote: “How many graves has the government of Michigan set aside for the casualties of the water crisis that will end with a gunshot in fifteen years’ time? We all know how cops respond to kids of color with intellectual disabilities or mental illness.”

4. “How many graves has the government of Michigan set aside for the casualties of the water crisis that will end with a gunshot in fifteen years’ time? We all know how cops respond to kids of color with intellectual disabilities or mental illness.”

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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Quote: “The undocumented community in Flint has been affected by the water crisis in disturbingly specific ways. Flyers announcing toxic levels of lead in the Flint waterways were published entirely in English, and when canvassers went door-to-door to tell residents to stop drinking tap water, undocumented people did not open their doors out of fear that the people knocking were immigration authorities.”

5. “The undocumented community in Flint has been affected by the water crisis in disturbingly specific ways. Flyers announcing toxic levels of lead in the Flint waterways were published entirely in English, and when canvassers went door-to-door to tell residents to stop drinking tap water, undocumented people did not open their doors out of fear that the people knocking were immigration authorities.”

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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Quote: “The jet-fuel smell thick in the air, the flame and smoke surrounding you, you can only get to 011 and that’s enough to make you foreign, to make you other, to make you Mexican. You take out your wallet and put an ID between your teeth so they can find you when it all collapses. Your flesh may burn but your teeth will remain and the ID will be there. It’s a fake ID. Nobody will ever know you died. Nobody will ever know you lived.”

6. “The jet-fuel smell thick in the air, the flame and smoke surrounding you, you can only get to 011 and that’s enough to make you foreign, to make you other, to make you Mexican. You take out your wallet and put an ID between your teeth so they can find you when it all collapses. Your flesh may burn but your teeth will remain and the ID will be there. It’s a fake ID. Nobody will ever know you died. Nobody will ever know you lived.”

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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Quote: “The twisted inversion that many children of immigrants know is that, at some point, your parents become your children, and your own personal American dream becomes making sure they age and die with dignity in a country that has never wanted them.”

7. “The twisted inversion that many children of immigrants know is that, at some point, your parents become your children, and your own personal American dream becomes making sure they age and die with dignity in a country that has never wanted them.”

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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Quote: “I grew up with nightmares but they are living through nightmares.”

8. “I grew up with nightmares but they are living through nightmares.”

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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Quote: “I’d honestly rather swallow a razor blade than be expected to change the mind of a xenophobe.”

9. “I’d honestly rather swallow a razor blade than be expected to change the mind of a xenophobe.”

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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Quote: “Sometimes to prove my ability to let go, I’ll write something long and delete it, or go on my phone and delate all the photos i have of memories. I’ve never loved any material object.”

10. “Sometimes to prove my ability to let go, I’ll write something long and delete it, or go on my phone and delate all the photos i have of memories. I’ve never loved any material object.”

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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Quote: “As an undocumented person, I felt like a hologram. Nothing felt secure. I never felt safe... I’ve learned to develop no relationship to anything, not to photos, not to people, not to jewelry, or clothing or ticket stubs or stuffed animals from childhood.”

11. “As an undocumented person, I felt like a hologram. Nothing felt secure. I never felt safe... I’ve learned to develop no relationship to anything, not to photos, not to people, not to jewelry, or clothing or ticket stubs or stuffed animals from childhood.”

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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Quote: “My husband gets upset with me because I get up out of bed at dawn every morning to go watch the birds wake up. I like rising with the birds. I like to hear them sing.” I ask Lilliana if she owns pet birds. There is a long pause. “I don’t own birds. I set them free.”

12. “My husband gets upset with me because I get up out of bed at dawn every morning to go watch the birds wake up. I like rising with the birds. I like to hear them sing.” I ask Lilliana if she owns pet birds. There is a long pause. “I don’t own birds. I set them free.”

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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Quote: “There are white moms who threw stones at the little girls in Little Rock and there are white moms who wish Andres and Omar and Elias and Greta’s mom will be deported too.”

13. “There are white moms who threw stones at the little girls in Little Rock and there are white moms who wish Andres and Omar and Elias and Greta’s mom will be deported too.”

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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Quote: “The government wanted the people of Flint dead, or did not care if they died, which is the same thing, and set in motion a plan for them to be killed slowly through negligence at the highest levels. What I saw in Flint was a microcosm of the way the government treats the undocumented everywhere, making the conditions in this country as deadly and toxic and inhumane as possible, so that we will self-deport.”

14. “The government wanted the people of Flint dead, or did not care if they died, which is the same thing, and set in motion a plan for them to be killed slowly through negligence at the highest levels. What I saw in Flint was a microcosm of the way the government treats the undocumented everywhere, making the conditions in this country as deadly and toxic and inhumane as possible, so that we will self-deport.”

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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Quote: “The workers think there are people along the chain of command who are watching out for them, but melanin and accents are ineffective binding substances.”

15. “The workers think there are people along the chain of command who are watching out for them, but melanin and accents are ineffective binding substances.”

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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Quote: “According to the Migration Policy Institute, around 10 percent of undocumented people are over fifty-five years old. This country takes their youth, their dreams, their labor, and spits them out with nothing to show for it.”

16. “According to the Migration Policy Institute, around 10 percent of undocumented people are over fifty-five years old. This country takes their youth, their dreams, their labor, and spits them out with nothing to show for it.”

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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Quote: “After Katrina, about half of the reconstruction crews in New Orleans were Latinx, and more than half of those were undocumented. They worked the most dangerous jobs for the lowest wages. They picked up dead bodies without gloves and masks. They waded waist-deep in toxic waters.”

17. “After Katrina, about half of the reconstruction crews in New Orleans were Latinx, and more than half of those were undocumented. They worked the most dangerous jobs for the lowest wages. They picked up dead bodies without gloves and masks. They waded waist-deep in toxic waters.”

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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Quote: “The whitest thing I have ever done in my life was not repeatedly trying to get bangs after seeing pictures of Zooey Deschanel. The whitest thing I’ve done in my life was trying to save the Flint youth while I was visiting there.”

18. “The whitest thing I have ever done in my life was not repeatedly trying to get bangs after seeing pictures of Zooey Deschanel. The whitest thing I’ve done in my life was trying to save the Flint youth while I was visiting there.”

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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Quote: “In times of crisis, day laborers are often the first responders,” one labor organizer told me.”

19. “In times of crisis, day laborers are often the first responders,” one labor organizer told me.”

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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Quote: “I hope they have children who can take care of them,” I respond. What I mean to say is: I hope they have a child like me. I hope everyone has a child like me. If I reach every child of immigrants at an early age, I can make sure every child becomes me. And if they don’t, I can be everyone’s child.”

20. “I hope they have children who can take care of them,” I respond. What I mean to say is: I hope they have a child like me. I hope everyone has a child like me. If I reach every child of immigrants at an early age, I can make sure every child becomes me. And if they don’t, I can be everyone’s child.”

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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Quote: “Through adulthood, my friends treated my not knowing how to swim like my not knowing how to ride a bicycle or not being able to leave the country – just, like, a quirky thing about me.”

21. “Through adulthood, my friends treated my not knowing how to swim like my not knowing how to ride a bicycle or not being able to leave the country – just, like, a quirky thing about me.”

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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Quote: “I am a one-trick pony, unable to comfort with anything other than grades.”

22. “I am a one-trick pony, unable to comfort with anything other than grades.”

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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Quote: “I respect the role of God in the lives of people who suffer, but basically only in the lives of people who suffer.”

23. “I respect the role of God in the lives of people who suffer, but basically only in the lives of people who suffer.”

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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Quote: “As a rule, I try to not tell strangers my nightmares unless I’m being paid by the word.”

24. “As a rule, I try to not tell strangers my nightmares unless I’m being paid by the word.”

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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Quote: “What I saw in Flint was a microcosm of the way the government treats the undocumented everywhere, making the conditions in this country as deadly and toxic and inhumane as possible so that we will self-deport. What I saw in Flint was what I had seen everywhere else, what I had felt in my own poisoned blood and bones. Being killed softly, silently, and with impunity.”

25. “What I saw in Flint was a microcosm of the way the government treats the undocumented everywhere, making the conditions in this country as deadly and toxic and inhumane as possible so that we will self-deport. What I saw in Flint was what I had seen everywhere else, what I had felt in my own poisoned blood and bones. Being killed softly, silently, and with impunity.”

— Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

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