Like all people, we perceive the version of reality that our culture communicates. Like others having or living in more than one culture, we get multiple, often opposing messages. The coming together of two self-consistent but habitually incomparable frames of… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
My 'awakened dreams' are about shifts. Thought shifts, reality shifts, gender shifts: one person metamorphoses into another in a world where people fly through the air, heal from mortal wounds. I am playing with my Self, I am playing with… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
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… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
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.… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
Nothing happens in the 'real' world unless it first happens in the images in our heads — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
In trying to become 'objective,' Western culture made 'objects' of things and people when it distanced itself from them, thereby losing 'touch' with them. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
The Gringo, locked into the fiction of white superiority, seized complete political power, stripping Indians and Mexicans of their land while their feet were… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
Write in the kitchen, lock yourself up in the bathroom. Write on the bus or the welfare line, on the job or during meals. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
We are taught that the body is an ignorant animal intelligence dwells only in the head. But the body is smart. It does not… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
To separate from my culture (as from my family) I had to feel competent enough on the outside and secure enough inside to live… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
the world I create in writing compensates for what the real world does not give me. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
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… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
