#ithaesthetic

“she saved everything we gave her every little scrap of paper and our lives are in these boxes while the woman who held us is gone but we go on, we grow”

[they kiss]

“you’ve got some schmutz on your face.”

well, how do you say "kiss me"? bésame and how do you say "hold me"? abrázame al amanecer  a t  s u n r i s e

“my mom is dominican-cuban, my dad is from chile and pr which means       i’m chiledominicurican…but i always say i’m from queens”

in the heights aesthetics >>> sonny de la vega “the rent is escalatin’, the rich are penetratin’, we pay our corporations when we should be demonstratin’. what about immigration? politicians be hatin’. racism in this nation’s gone from latent to blatant!”

“ay carajo it’s hot. but that’s okay. mamá would say ‘paciencia y fe.’“

“yeah i’m a streetlight chillin’ in the heat. i illuminate the stories of the people in the street. some have happy endings, some are bittersweet. but i know them all and that’s what makes my life complete”