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> [We are taught that the body is an ignorant animal intelligence dwells only in the head. But the body is smart. It does not discern between external stimuli and stimuli from the imagination. It reacts equally viscerally to events from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-e-anzald-a/we-are-taught-that-the-body-is-an-ignorant-animal-intelligence-dwells/)

[Gloria E. Anzaldúa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-e-anzald-a/)

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## More by Gloria E. Anzaldúa

> [The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-e-anzald-a/the-u-s-mexican-border-es-un-herida-abierta-where-the-third-world/)

[Gloria E. Anzaldúa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-e-anzald-a/)

> [A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-e-anzald-a/a-woman-who-writes-has-power-and-a-woman-with-power-is-feared/)

[Gloria E. Anzaldúa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-e-anzald-a/)

> [I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-e-anzald-a/i-will-have-my-voice-indian-spanish-white-i-will-have-my-serpent-s/)

[Gloria E. Anzaldúa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-e-anzald-a/)

> [Nothing happens in the 'real' world unless it first happens in the images in our heads](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-e-anzald-a/nothing-happens-in-the-real-world-unless-it-first-happens-in-the/)

[Gloria E. Anzaldúa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-e-anzald-a/)

> [In trying to become 'objective,' Western culture made 'objects' of things and people when it distanced itself from them, thereby losing 'touch' with them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-e-anzald-a/in-trying-to-become-objective-western-culture-made-objects-of-things/)

[Gloria E. Anzaldúa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-e-anzald-a/)

> [The Gringo, locked into the fiction of white superiority, seized complete political power, stripping Indians and Mexicans of their land while their feet were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-e-anzald-a/the-gringo-locked-into-the-fiction-of-white-superiority-seized/)

[Gloria E. Anzaldúa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-e-anzald-a/)

> [Write in the kitchen, lock yourself up in the bathroom. Write on the bus or the welfare line, on the job or during meals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-e-anzald-a/write-in-the-kitchen-lock-yourself-up-in-the-bathroom-write-on-the/)

[Gloria E. Anzaldúa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-e-anzald-a/)

> [We are taught that the body is an ignorant animal intelligence dwells only in the head. But the body is smart. It does not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-e-anzald-a/we-are-taught-that-the-body-is-an-ignorant-animal-intelligence-dwells/)

[Gloria E. Anzaldúa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-e-anzald-a/)

> [To separate from my culture (as from my family) I had to feel competent enough on the outside and secure enough inside to live…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-e-anzald-a/to-separate-from-my-culture-as-from-my-family-i-had-to-feel-competent/)

[Gloria E. Anzaldúa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-e-anzald-a/)

> [the world I create in writing compensates for what the real world does not give me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-e-anzald-a/the-world-i-create-in-writing-compensates-for-what-the-real-world/)

[Gloria E. Anzaldúa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-e-anzald-a/)

> [I am visible-see this Indian face-yet I am invisible. I both blind them with my beak nose and am their blind spot. But I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-e-anzald-a/i-am-visible-see-this-indian-face-yet-i-am-invisible-i-both-blind/)

[Gloria E. Anzaldúa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-e-anzald-a/)

> [By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-e-anzald-a/by-writing-i-put-order-in-the-world-give-it-a-handle-so-i-can-grasp-it/)

[Gloria E. Anzaldúa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-e-anzald-a/)

> [Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-e-anzald-a/books-saved-my-sanity-knowledge-opened-the-locked-places-in-me-and/)

[Gloria E. Anzaldúa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-e-anzald-a/)

> [The act of writing is the act of making soul, alchemy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-e-anzald-a/the-act-of-writing-is-the-act-of-making-soul-alchemy/)

[Gloria E. Anzaldúa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-e-anzald-a/)

> [Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. You are the truthsayer with quill and torch.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-e-anzald-a/write-with-your-eyes-like-painters-with-your-ears-like-musicians-with/)

[Gloria E. Anzaldúa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-e-anzald-a/)

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