Suddenly, my cancer was a cancer that was everywhere, the cancer of cruelty, the cancer of greed, the cancer that gets inside people who live down the streets from chemical plants -- and they're usually poor -- the cancer inside the coal miner's lungs, the cancer of stress for not achieving enough, the cancer of buried trauma, the cancer in caged chickens and polluted fish, the cancer in women's uteruses from being raped, the cancer that is everywhere from our carelessness.
Tiba-tiba kankerku ada di mana-mana, kanker kekejaman, kanker ketamakan, kanker yang merasuk ke tubuh orang yang tinggal dekat dengan pabrik kimia -- dan biasanya mereka miskin -- kanker di dalam paru-paru penambang batubara, kanker dari stres karena tidak puas dengan pencapaian, kanker dari trauma tersembunyi, kanker di ayam di kandang dan ikan di air tercemar, kanker di rahim para wanita yang diperkosa, kanker yang ada di mana-mana karena kecerobohan kita.