"I am visible-see this Indian face-yet I am……" — 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."
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Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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29 Quotes by Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Gloria E. Anzaldúa has 29 quotes on this site.
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I am playing with my Self, I am playing with the world's soul, I am the dialogue between my Self…
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Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim…
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We cannot educate white women and take them by the hand. Most of us are willing to help but we…
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Write in the kitchen, lock yourself up in the bathroom. Write on the bus or the welfare line, on the…
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But I'm more scared of not writing.
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What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it…
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Nothing happens in the 'real' world unless it first happens in the images in our heads
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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…
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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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Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no…
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The struggle is inner: Chicano, indio, American Indian, mojado, mexicano, immigrant Latino, Anglo in power, working class Anglo, Black, Asian--our…
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I change myself, I change the world.
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As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not…
— Thomas Huxley
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I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I…
— Matt Lauer
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The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.
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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
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It took me three weeks to stuff the turkey. I stuffed it through the beak.
— Phyllis Diller
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Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The…
— Guy Murchie
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I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that…
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While it is not always profitable to analogize fact to fiction, La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and…
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