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“Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar.”

Gloria E. Anzaldúa

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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 again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country - a border culture.

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A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.

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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.…

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Nothing happens in the 'real' world unless it first happens in the images in our heads

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In trying to become 'objective,' Western culture made 'objects' of things and people when it distanced itself from them, thereby losing 'touch' with them.

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The Gringo, locked into the fiction of white superiority, seized complete political power, stripping Indians and Mexicans of their land while their feet were…

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Write in the kitchen, lock yourself up in the bathroom. Write on the bus or the welfare line, on the job or during meals.

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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…

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To separate from my culture (as from my family) I had to feel competent enough on the outside and secure enough inside to live…

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the world I create in writing compensates for what the real world does not give me.

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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…

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By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it.

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