“ 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. Gloria E. Anzaldúa
“ The process of falling apart (the Coyolxauhqui process), of being wounded, is a sort of shamanic initiatory dismemberment that gives suffering a spiritual and soulful value. The shaman’s initiatory or… Gloria E. Anzaldúa
“ Compañera, cuando amábamos(for Juanita Ramos and other spik dykes)¿Volverán, campañera, esas tardes sordasCuando nos amábamos tiradas en las sombras bajo otoño?Mis ojos clavados en tu miradaTu mirada… Gloria E. Anzaldúa
“ Esos movimientos de rebeldia que tenemos en la sangre nosotros los mexicanos surgen como rios desbocanados en mis venas. Gloria E. Anzaldúa
“ 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
“ But there are no safe spaces. 'Home' can be unsafe and dangerous because it bears the likelihood of intimacy and thus thinner boundaries. Staying 'home' and not venturing out from our group comes from… Gloria E. Anzaldúa
“ It is our customto consumethe person we love.Taboo flesh: swollengenitalia nipplesthe scrotum the vulvathe soles of the feetthe palm of the handheart and liver taste best.Cannibalism is blessed.I'll w… Gloria E. Anzaldúa
“ The U.S-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a thir… Gloria E. Anzaldúa
“ 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… Gloria E. Anzaldúa
“ We’re afraid the others will think we’re agringadas because we don’t speak Chicano Spanish. We oppress each other trying to out-Chicano each other, vying to be “real” Chicanas, to speak like Chicanos.… Gloria E. Anzaldúa
“ 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… Gloria E. Anzaldúa
“ Maimed, mad, and sexually different people were believed to possess supernatural powers by primal cultures' magico-religious thinking. For them, abnormality was the price a person had to pay for her o… Gloria E. Anzaldúa
“ Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar. (Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks.) Gloria E. Anzaldúa
“ Though we tremble before uncertain futuresmay we meet illness, death and adversity with strengthmay we dance in the face of our fears. Gloria E. Anzaldúa
“ Why am I compelled to write?... Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me. By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it.… Gloria E. Anzaldúa
