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

— 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.

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)

In summary, this is our collection. And to all who ruminate these pages: luz y mar.

The Margarita Poems (1987)

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The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now.

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Only the dead have seen the end of war.

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Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

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