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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.

— Luz María Umpierre Manifesto: Whose Taboos? Theirs, Yours, or Ours? (1996)

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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)

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

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