"I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white.……" — 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."
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Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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29 Quotes by Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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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…
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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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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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