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Like a stone thrown into a pool, this book's ripples have touched people on numerous shores, affecting scholars and activists throughout the world.
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981)
Our images/feelings/thoughts have to be conflicted before we see the need for change.
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981)
For positive social change to happen we need to envision a different reality, dream new blueprints for it, formulate new strategies for coping in it.
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981)
May our voices proclaim the bonds of bridges.
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981)
Among the ashes traces of our roots glow like live coals illuminating our past, giving us sustenance for the present and guidance for the future.
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981)
Basta de gritar contra el viento-toda palabra es ruido si no está acompañada de acción (enough of shouting against the wind-all words are noise if not accompanied with action).
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981)
Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice. Because I must keep the spirit of my revolt and myself alive. 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. I write because life does not appease my appetites and hunger. I write to record what others erase when I speak, to rewrite the stories others have miswritten about me, about you.
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981)
Perhaps like me you are tired of suffering and talking about suffering, estás hasta el pescuezo de sufrimiento, de contar las lluvias de sangre pero no las lluvias de flores (up to your neck with suffering, of counting the rainsof blood but not the rains of flowers).
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981)
We are not reconciled to the oppressors who whet their howl on our grief. We are not reconciled. (p. 171)
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981)