Quotes/Narrations of Life
Below are various quotes and narrations of life from Professor Sandoval-Sánchez. These were mostly spoken in classes he taught while at Williams College. In his words, we hear his life, his experience, and his heart.
"Here we go, I'm always on Broadway."
- Spoken in LATS 347, 04 April 2022 (in reference to Professor Sandoval-Sánchez's academic expertise and personal adoration for Broadway)
"Don't ever have an accident on a Friday night. The ER is always busy on Friday nights."
- Spoken in LATS 320, 08 November 2021 (in reference to Professor Sandoval-Sánchez's experiences in the emergency room while surviving AIDS)
"Can you archive feelings?"
- Spoken in LATS 320, 01 November 2021 (in reference to understanding what can truly be added to literary or artistic canons)
"I thought it was so stupid to die of COVID, when I worked so hard to survive AIDS."
- Spoken in LATS 320, 08 November 2021
"Disco music is not disco music without AIDS."
- Spoken in LATS 320, 15 November 2021 (in reference to the backdrop of discos and young nightlife with the HIV/AIDS crisis)
"The body translates everything."
- Spoken in LATS 320, 01 November 2021 (in reference to the physical, mental, and emotional traumas one can experience in their lifetime)
"When boys go to the movies, they're trying to still prove their manhood."
- Spoken in LATS 320, 08 November 2021 (in reference to the films populations choose to consume and spend their money on)
"You have to understand the white master narrative in order to understand why other [narratives] come so late."
- Spoken in LATS 320, 15 November 2021
"You get lousy roommates [in the hospital]. Especially if they're old men, because they're spoiled."
- Spoken in LATS 320, 06 December 2021 (in reference to to experiences in the hospital while surviving AIDS)
"What's your consciousness about who you are? What happened in that process of constructing the self?”
- Spoken in LATS 347, 07 February 2022
"Where there is a body, there is race."
- Spoken in LATS 347, 04 April 2022
"What traumatizes you?"
- Spoken in LATS 320, 01 November 2021