--- title: "4 Guillermo Gómez-Peña Quotes - Famous Writer (Pocha Nostra)" description: "Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a Mexican/Chicano performance artist, writer, activist, and educator. Gómez-Peña has created work in multiple media, including p..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-guillermo-gomezpena-39626.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Guillermo Gómez-Peña](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-guillermo-gomezpena-39626.jpg) # Guillermo Gómez-Peña (1955) Writer **4** quotes in **28** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a writer, best known for *Pocha Nostra*. ## Quick Facts About Guillermo Gómez-Peña Born January 1, 1955 Profession Writer Notable works Pocha Nostra ## About Guillermo Gómez-Peña Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a Mexican/Chicano performance artist, writer, activist, and educator. Gómez-Peña has created work in multiple media, including performance art, experimental radio, video, photography and installation art. His fifteen books include essays, experimental poetry, performance scripts, photographs and chronicles in both English, Spanish and Spanglish. He is a founding member of the pioneering art collective Border Arts Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo (1985-1992) and artistic director of the performance art troupe La Pocha Nostra. ## Quotes by Guillermo Gómez-Peña > [“Fear is the foundation of your identity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillermo-g-mez-pe-a/fear-is-the-foundation-of-your-identity/) Guillermo Gómez-Peña [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41a/guillermo-g-mez-pe-a-65254_art_fear-is-the-foundation-of-your-identity_1534176.jpg) > [“One day, they will wake up to an extremely unbearable ocean of sameness. (re: changing San Francisco)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillermo-g-mez-pe-a/one-day-they-will-wake-up-to-an-extremely-unbearable-ocean-of/) Guillermo Gómez-Peña [Ocean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ocean/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/300/guillermo-g-mez-pe-a-65254_ocean_one-day-they-will-wake-up-to-an-extremel_1562407.jpg) > [All Americans (from the vast continent America) were, are, or will be border crossers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillermo-g-mez-pe-a/all-americans-from-the-vast-continent-america-were-are-or-will-be/) Guillermo Gomez-Pena [America](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/america/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3d/guillermo-g-mez-pe-a-65254_america_all-americans-from-the-vast-continent-am_2565494.jpg) > [The term Hispanic, coined by technomarketing experts and by the designers of political campaigns, homogenizes our cultural diversity (Chicanos, Cubans, and Puerto…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillermo-g-mez-pe-a/the-term-hispanic-coined-by-technomarketing-experts-and-by-the/) Guillermo Gomez-Pena [Campaigns](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/campaigns/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c3/guillermo-g-mez-pe-a-65254_campaigns_the-term-hispanic-coined-by-technomarket_3153649.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillermo-g-mez-pe-a/#itemlist", "name": "Guillermo Gómez-Peña Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Fear is the foundation of your identity.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Guillermo Gómez-Peña" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillermo-g-mez-pe-a/fear-is-the-foundation-of-your-identity/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41a/guillermo-g-mez-pe-a-65254_art_fear-is-the-foundation-of-your-identity_1534176.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41a/guillermo-g-mez-pe-a-65254_art_fear-is-the-foundation-of-your-identity_1534176.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41a/guillermo-g-mez-pe-a-65254_art_fear-is-the-foundation-of-your-identity_1534176.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Fear is the foundation of your identity.” — Guillermo Gómez-Peña", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“One day, they will wake up to an extremely unbearable ocean of sameness. 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