Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quotes

• The struggle is inner: Chicano, indio, American Indian, mojado, mexicano, immigrant Latino, Anglo in power, working class Anglo, Black, Asian--our psyches resemble the bordertowns and are populated by the same people. The struggle has always been inner, and is played out in outer terrains. Awareness of our situation must come before inner changes, which in turn come before changes in society. Nothing happens in the "real" world unless it first happens in the images in our heads.

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  Real, Struggle, Psych

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• What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.

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  Responsibility, Hands, Dignity

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• A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.

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  Escribir

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• Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. You are the truthsayer with quill and torch. Write with your tongues of fire. Don't let the pen banish you from yourself.

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  Writing, Eye, Fire

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• Do work that matters. Vale la pena

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  Materia

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• Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, while I still have to speak English or Spanish when I would rather speak Spanglish, and as long as I have to accommodate the English speakers rather than having them accommodate me, my tongue will be illegitimate. I will no longer be made to feel ashamed of existing. 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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  Writing, Speak English, Voice

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• To separate from my culture (as from my family) I had to feel competent enough on the outside and secure enough inside to live life on my own. Yet in leaving home I did not lose touch with my origins because lo mexicano is in my system. I am a turtle, wherever I go I carry 'home' on my back.

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  Live Life, Home, Turtles

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• Nothing happens in the 'real' world unless it first happens in the images in our heads

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  Real, Mundo, Primeros

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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 in a new element, an "alien" element.

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  Integrity, Justice, Diversity

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• Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears.

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  Adversity, May, Faces

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• Nobody’s going to save you. No one’s going to cut you down, cut the thorns thick around you. No one’s going to storm the castle walls nor kiss awake your birth, climb down your hair, nor mount you onto the white steed. There is no one who will feed the yearning. Face it. You will have to do, do it yourself.

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  Wall, Cutting, Kissing

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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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  Book, Firsts, Taught

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• I change myself, I change the world.

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  Inspirational, Change, World

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• I had to leave home so I could find myself, find my own intrinsic nature buried under the personality that had been imposed on me.

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  Home, Personality, Buried

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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 voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.

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  Women, Voice, White

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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 and el espiritu del mundo. I change myself, I change the world.

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  Self, Justice, Soul

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• La frontera entre Estados Unidos y México es una herida abierta donde el Tercer Mundo choca con el primero y sangra. Y antes de que se forme una costra vuelve a sangrar, la sangre vital de dos mundos se funde para formar un tercer país: una cultura fronteriza.

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  Country, Two, Mexican Border

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• Like all people, we perceive the version of reality that our culture communicates. Like others having or living in more than one culture, we get multiple, often opposing messages. The coming together of two self-consistent but habitually incomparable frames of reference causes un choque, a cultural collision.

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  Reality, Self, Two

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• The Gringo, locked into the fiction of white superiority, seized complete political power, stripping Indians and Mexicans of their land while their feet were still rooted in it. Con el destierro y el exilo fuimos desuñados, destroncados, destripados - we were jerked out by the roots, truncated, disemboweled, dispossessed, and separated from our identity and our history.

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  Land, Roots, White

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• To survive the Borderlands you must live sin fronteras be a crossroads.

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  Sin, Crossroads

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• I am an act of kneading, of uniting and joining that not only has produced both a creature of darkness and a creature of light, but also a creature that questions the definitions of light and dark and gives them new meanings.

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  Dark, Light, Giving

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• La depresión es útil. Te indica que tienes que hacer cambios en tu vida, desafía tu tendencia al retraimiento, te recuerda que tienes que pasar a la acción.

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  Life, Depression, Challenges

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• We cannot educate white women and take them by the hand. Most of us are willing to help but we can't do the white woman's homework for her. That's an energy drain. More times than she cares to remember, Nellie Wong, Asian American feminist writer, has been called by white women wanting a list of Asian American women who can give readings or workshops. We are in danger of being reduced to purvey­ors of resource lists.

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  Reading, Hands, White

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• An image is a bridge between evoked emotion and conscious knowledge; words are the cables that hold up the bridge. Images are more direct, more immediate than words, and closer to the unconscious. Picture language precedes thinking in words; the metaphorical mind precedes analytical consciousness.

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  Thinking, Bridges, Mind

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• Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out.

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  Cutting, Tongue, Tamed

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