Beaks Quote by Gloria E. Anzaldúa

“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, we exist. They'd like to think I have melted in the pot. But I haven't. We haven't.”

Gloria E. Anzaldúa

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