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The chapbook was published in Puerto Rico as a gift to Nemir, my muse at that time (2008/2009); a woman I truly love.

— Luz María Umpierre

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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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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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