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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.

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981)

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A misinformed people is a subjugated people.

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987)

The solution to your depression lies en esa cueva oscura [in this dark cave] and a deeper integration of your psyche.

Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality (2015)

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)

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)

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

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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