Ana Castillo Quotes

21 quotes in 272 categories

• There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of…
• Our goal should be to achieve joy
• Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.
• For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.
• I was just, like, not at all the office type; I was the artist type.
• I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as…
• I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.
• I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very…
• There’s something insupportable about being pissed with the one person on this planet that sends your adrenaline flowing to remind you that you’re alive. It’s…
• What you perceive as "liberal" is my independence to choose what i do, with whom, and when. Moreover, it also means that i may choose…
• Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.
• something about giving himself over to a woman was worse than having lunch with the devil...
• To all the women and the men who ever loved me just a little.
• Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And…
• The man you love cooking for you is good for you too.
• Women Are Not Roses Women have no beginning only continual flows. Though rivers flow women are not rivers. Women are not roses they are not…
• Between the sun and poverty there was us for a little while.
• A good lover will do that, see something worthwhile in you that you never knew was there. And when there's something you don't like to…
• Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart.…
• I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker.

Browse Ana Castillo Quotes by Category