Borders Quote by Gloria E. Anzaldúa

“Gloria Anzaldúa, who revolutionised the Chicana writing of her generation, called the border ‘una herida abierta – an open wound – where the Third…

— Ed Vulliamy

Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history.

— Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

The border between the dead and the living, if you're Mexican, doesn't exist. The dead are part of your life.

— Sandra Cisneros

The U.S.-Mexico border has often been described as an open wound. NAFTA was expected to heal it, albeit through a long, slow, and imperfect…

— Denise Dresser

...there was another, gorier parturition, when two nations incarnated out of one. A foreigner drew a magic line on a map and called it…

— Rohinton Mistry

Mexico extends beyond its borders.

— Vicente Fox

You have the United States, and you have Mexico, and then you have this Mexican-American thing which is this third culture, which I like…

— Linda Ronstadt

“Be careful. Please. The border…The fucking border.” I feel a wildness spreading through me. “It’s nothing but a giant wound, a big gash between…

— Erika L. Sánchez

The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.

— Barry McCaffrey

We always think of borders as something that separates two peoples but of course they unite them. It's something you have in common, literally.

— Don Winslow

The emergence of cross-border coalitions and issues shows the advent of a whole new era in U.S.-Mexican and Mexico-California relations.

— Denise Dresser

I think we're living in a world where there are no boundaries anymore. There are no borders.

— Robert Kraft