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What I needed to verbalize is the fact that I am, among many other things, a Lesbian. Second, I wanted to communicate in some viable form with some One who came to represent all women to me.

— Luz María Umpierre The Margarita Poems (1987)

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I have also been called and labeled "crazy" for daring to break stereotypes and taboos-for questioning white women on their racism.

Manifesto: Whose Taboos? Theirs, Yours, or Ours? (1996)

I feel that self promotion of one's misfortunes for gain is highly deplorable and a treason to the self.

I have always thought that my poetry is a reflection of my life in all its many capacities.

This book is an answer to Cherrie Moraga's valiant Loving In The War Years.

The Margarita Poems (1987)

I don't write anything in life, be they poems or articles, out of wanting to impress people with "volume" but out of thought, perception and feeling.

The Margarita Poems (1987)

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