Indian Quote by Gloria E. Anzaldúa

“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 will overcome the tradition of silence.” quote by Gloria E. Anzaldúa — Download Open image

“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 will overcome the tradition of silence.”

Gloria E. Anzaldúa

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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.

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