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I am a brown woman, from the Mexican side of town-torn between the Chicago obrero roots of my upbringing and my egocentric tendency toward creative expressions.
Massacre Of The Dreamers: Essays On Xicanisma (1994)
The early feminista understood the erroneous conceptions of the white woman's movement that equated sexism to racism because she was experiencing its compounding effects in her daily life.
Massacre Of The Dreamers: Essays On Xicanisma (1994)
You chose, as I choose
to despair, or not
on a given night or day.
That despair turned inside out
you called love.
I Ask The Impossible (2000)
We pray for joy and love to fill our hearts,
our days and our nights
I Ask The Impossible (2000)
paintings
and books conceal more than they ever tell.
I Ask The Impossible (2000)
We pray that our government's leaders
look into their souls,
that they think with the heart of a mother
in making the decisions that affect
the world's populations.
I Ask The Impossible (2000)
I made a commitment a half century ago to make my writing my own tool and weapon to fight injustices as I recognized them, and this continues. I am grateful to the gods for it.
We said nothing for several minutes. Our minds weighed like ripened fruit on the branch. When one is confronted by the mirror, the spirit trembles. (p49)
The Mixquiahuala Letters (1986)
do you remember the Conquest
of the New World? Some scholars call it the Conquest
of women, because that is when women became a thing to own.
I Ask The Impossible (2000)
I continue with the agenda I had as a girl, writing to fill in the blanks, spaces, silences and outright lies regarding POC, specifically Latino/a/Chicana/os/Chicanx when and how I am able to do so.