8 quotes
Coming to terms with the suffering of others has never meant looking away from our own.
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981)
The challenge is to remain as culturally specific and culturally complex as possible, even in the face of mainstream seduction to do otherwise.
Art in America, Con Acento (1992)
I keep wanting to repeat over and over and over again, the pain and shock of difference, the joy of commonness, the exhilaration of meeting through incredible odds against it.
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981)
What the oppressor often succeeds in doing is simply externalizing his fears, projecting them into the bodies of women, Asians, gays, disabled folks, whoever seems most "other."
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981)
Chicanos with memory like our Indian counterparts recognize that we are a nation within a nation. An internal nation whose existence defies borders of language, geography, race.
Art in America, Con Acento (1992)
the conditions of invasion, war, and terrorism have existed for people of color in this hemisphere since the mistaken arrival of Columbus to our shores.
A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness (2011)
My real politicization began, not through the Chicano Movement but through the bold recognition of my lesbianism
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981)
Both my essays and plays attempt to explore a political question or contradiction through the mind or the heart. By that I mean, both genres require analysis and a heart-felt honesty. But the essay is fundamentally one-voiced perspective, my own…