30 quotes
Protect him, yes, with my life; spare him of learning responsibility and to take care of himself, no.
Why is what is natural to women often seen as negative?
A good lover will do that, see something worthwhile in you that you never knew was there. And when there's something you don't like to see in yourself a good lover won't see it either.
Peel My Love Like an Onion (1999)
In Lak Ech/tu eres mi otro yo–teaches about the ‘other’ and that we are all each other’s reflection.
Interview (2014)
We all participate in patriarchal patterns.
Interview (2014)
You say your city the way some Americans say this is their country. You never feel right saying that - my country. For some reason looking Mexican means you can't be American.
Peel My Love Like an Onion (1999)
The road in either direction
is neither longer nor shorter,
nor more narrow nor wider
than the fear that closes your heart.
I Ask The Impossible (2000)
The very act of self-definition is a rejection of colonization.
Massacre Of The Dreamers: Essays On Xicanisma (1994)
No one is very certain about anything after a while.
I Ask The Impossible (2000)
How does it feel to be cruel to a woman?
I Ask The Impossible (2000)
As if we should not be scandalized
by surprise bombing over any city at night,
bombs scandalizing the sanctity of night.
I Ask The Impossible (2000)
Today you try what suits you and when it don't-
move on, move on, move on.
I Ask The Impossible (2000)
It is our task as Xicanistas, to not only reclaim our indigenismo-but also to reinsert the forsaken feminine into our consciousness.
Massacre Of The Dreamers: Essays On Xicanisma (1994)
And I write these few
words
into the earth
before I forget that sadness
isn't everything.
I Ask The Impossible (2000)
I take every risk in writing that I can, because I don't write just to entertain people or make money.
Interview with Vice (2016)
Anyone who says the artists and writers they study don’t influence them, directly or unconsciously, isn’t being honest.
We can’t assume who speaks what language in these times.
Destiny is not a metaphysical confrontation with one's self, rather, society has knit its pattern so tight that a confrontation with it is inevitable. (p59)
The Mixquiahuala Letters (1986)
When i say ours was a love affair, it is an expression of nostalgia and melancholy for the depth of our empathy. (p39)
The Mixquiahuala Letters (1986)
And life is in my hands,
suckling at my breast,
thrives on the rhythm of my beating heart,
warmth of my throbbing belly.
I Ask The Impossible (2000)