Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quotes

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• 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 exist,…
• I am playing with my Self, I am playing with the world's soul, I am the dialogue between my Self and el espiritu del mundo.…
• Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an…
• We cannot educate white women and take them by the hand. Most of us are willing to help but we can't do the white woman's…
• Write in the kitchen, lock yourself up in the bathroom. Write on the bus or the welfare line, on the job or during meals.
• But I'm more scared of not writing.
• What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry…
• Nothing happens in the 'real' world unless it first happens in the images in our heads
• 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. I…
• By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it.
• Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice.
• The struggle is inner: Chicano, indio, American Indian, mojado, mexicano, immigrant Latino, Anglo in power, working class Anglo, Black, Asian--our psyches resemble the bordertowns and…
• I change myself, I change the world.
• I am an act of kneading, of uniting and joining that not only has produced both a creature of darkness and a creature of light,…
• All reaction is limited by, and dependant on, what it is reacting against.
• Do work that matters. Vale la pena
• 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…
• In trying to become 'objective,' Western culture made 'objects' of things and people when it distanced itself from them, thereby losing 'touch' with them.
• I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods out of my…
• Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears.

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