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Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (September 26, 1942 – May 15, 2004) was an American scholar of Chicana cultural theory, feminist theory, and queer theory. She loosely based her best-known book, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, on her life growing up on the Mexico–Texas border and incorporated her lifelong feelings of social and cultural marginalization into her work. She also developed theories about the marginal, in-between, and mixed cultures that develop along borders.

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We are taught that the body is an ignorant animal intelligence dwells only in the head. But the body is smart. It does not discern between external stimuli and stimuli from the imagination. It reacts equally viscerally to events from the imagination as it does to real events.

Animal, Body, Equally, Real, Smart, Taught

Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out.

Cut, Cutting, Tamed, Tongue, Tongues

These my two hands
quick to slap my face
before others could slap it.

Faces, Hands, Quick, Slap, Two

I had to leave home so I could find myself, find my own intrinsic nature buried under the personality that had been imposed on me.

Buried, Home, Imposed, Personality, Under

Depression is useful. It signals that you need to make changes in your life, it challenges your tendency to withdraw, it reminds you to take action.

Challenges, Changes, Depression, Life, Signals, Tendency

Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, while I still have to speak English or Spanish when I would rather speak Spanglish, and as long as I have to accommodate the English speakers rather than having them accommodate me, my tongue will be illegitimate. I will no longer be made to feel ashamed of existing. I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.

Having, Longer, Speak English, Voice, White, Writing

I am mad - but I choose this madness.

Choose, Mad, Madness

By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it.

Give, Giving, Grasp, Order, Writing

Do work that matters. Vale la pena

Matter, Matters, Pena, Vale, Work

Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice.

Choices, Complacency, Fear, Saves, Writing

Nobody’s going to save you. No one’s going to cut you down, cut the thorns thick around you. No one’s going to storm the castle walls nor kiss awake your birth, climb down your hair, nor mount you onto the white steed. There is no one who will feed the yearning. Face it. You will have to do, do it yourself.

Castle, Cutting, Feed, Kissing, Ones, Wall

the world I create in writing compensates for what the real world does not give me.

Compensates, Giving, Real, World, Writing

I can't seem to stay out of my own way.

My Own, Seems, Stay, Way

I change myself, I change the world.

Change, Inspirational, World

Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar.

Book, Firsts, Places, Soar, Survive, Taught

Write in the kitchen, lock yourself up in the bathroom. Write on the bus or the welfare line, on the job or during meals.

Bus, Jobs, Kitchen, Write, Writing

A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.

Feared, Power, Woman, Writes, Writing

I am visible-see this Indian face-yet I am invisible. I both blind them with my beak nose and am their blind spot. But I exist, we exist. They'd like to think I have melted in the pot. But I haven't. We haven't.

Blind Spots, Indian, Justice, Nose, Think, Thinking

What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.

Dignity, Hands, Responsibility, Say

Nothing happens in the 'real' world unless it first happens in the images in our heads

Firsts, Images, Nothing, Real, World

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