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Quotes from Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza — Gloria E. Anzaldúa

1942–2004 United States

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9 quotes

A misinformed people is a subjugated people.

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987)

They'd like to think I have melted in the pot. But I haven't. We haven't.

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987)

Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987)

Those who are pushed out of the tribe for being different are likely to become more sensitized (when not brutalized into insensitivity).

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987)

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

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987)

I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987)

The skin of the earth is seamless. The sea cannot be fenced, El mar does not stop at borders

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987)

The soul uses everything to further its own making. … States which disrupt the smooth flow (complacency) of life are exactly what propel the soul to do its work: make soul, increase consciousness of itself. Our greatest disappointments and painful experiences—if we can make meaning out of them—can lead us toward becoming more of who we are.

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987)

Alienated from her mother culture, ‘alien' in the dominant culture, the woman of color does not feel safe within the inner life of her Self. Petrified, she can’t respond, her face caught between los intersticios, the spaces between the different worlds she inhabits.

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gloria E. Anzaldúa (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.