Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa famous quotes

03-24-2025

A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.
-- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

#Writing
Nobodyâ€™s going to save you. No oneâ€™s going to cut you down, cut the thorns thick around you. No oneâ€™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.
-- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

#Wall #Cutting #Kissing
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.
-- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

#Thinking #Justice #Noses
I change myself, I change the world.
-- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

#Inspirational #Change #World
By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it.
-- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

#Writing #Order #Giving
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.
-- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

#Responsibility #Hands #Dignity
To survive the Borderlands you must live sin fronteras be a crossroads.
-- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

#Sin #Crossroads
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.
-- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

#Real #Smart #Animal
Nothing happens in the 'real' world unless it first happens in the images in our heads
-- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

#Real #World #Firsts
Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an "alien" element.
-- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

#Integrity #Justice #Swim
The struggle is inner: Chicano, indio, American Indian, mojado, mexicano, immigrant Latino, Anglo in power, working class Anglo, Black, Asian--our psyches resemble the bordertowns and are populated by the same people. The struggle has always been inner, and is played out in outer terrains. Awareness of our situation must come before inner changes, which in turn come before changes in society. Nothing happens in the "real" world unless it first happens in the images in our heads.
-- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

#Real #Struggle #Psych
Do work that matters. Vale la pena
-- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

#Matter
Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears.
-- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

#Adversity #May #Faces
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.
-- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

#Writing #Voice #White
All reaction is limited by, and dependant on, what it is reacting against.
-- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

#Reactions #Reacting
But I'm more scared of not writing.
-- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

#Writing #Scared
Write in the kitchen, lock yourself up in the bathroom. Write on the bus or the welfare line, on the job or during meals.
-- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

#Jobs #Writing #Kitchen
Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice.
-- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

#Writing #Choices #Complacency
Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out.
-- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

#Cutting #Tongue
Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar. (Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks.)
-- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

#Bridges #Hay #Als
I am mad - but I choose this madness.
-- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

#Mad #Madness
I am an act of kneading, of uniting and joining that not only has produced both a creature of darkness and a creature of light, but also a creature that questions the definitions of light and dark and gives them new meanings.
-- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

#Dark #Light #Giving
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.
-- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

#Women #Voice #White
I can't seem to stay out of my own way.
-- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

#Way
I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods out of my entrails...
-- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

#Fashion #Ashes #Want
Like all people, we perceive the version of reality that our culture communicates. Like others having or living in more than one culture, we get multiple, often opposing messages. The coming together of two self-consistent but habitually incomparable frames of reference causes un choque, a cultural collision.
-- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

#Reality #Self #Two
We cannot educate white women and take them by the hand. Most of us are willing to help but we can't do the white woman's homework for her. That's an energy drain. More times than she cares to remember, Nellie Wong, Asian American feminist writer, has been called by white women wanting a list of Asian American women who can give readings or workshops. We are in danger of being reduced to purveyÂors of resource lists.
-- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

#Reading #White #Hands
I am playing with my Self, I am playing with the world's soul, I am the dialogue between my Self and el espiritu del mundo. I change myself, I change the world.
-- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

#Self #Justice #Soul
In trying to become 'objective,' Western culture made 'objects' of things and people when it distanced itself from them, thereby losing 'touch' with them.
-- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

#People #Trying #Western Culture

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