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Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.
I am the daughter of a Chicana and anglo. I think most days I am an embarrassment to both groups. I sometimes hate the white in me so viciously that I long to forget the commitment my skin has imposed upon my life.
Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.
I am a woman with a foot in both worlds; and I refuse the split. I feel the necessity for dialogue. Sometimes I feel it urgently.
But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.
The revolution begins at home.
The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.
I have sometimes
hated my lover for loving me. I have sometimes felt "not woman
enough" for her. I have sometimes felt "not man enough.
A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the grain of Anglo misogynist culture-political movements are what have allowed our writing to surface from the secret places in our notebooks into the public sphere.
Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.
The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth
When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.
The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.
Third World feminism is about feeding people in all their hungers.
To assess the damage is a dangerous act.
I have had to confront the fact that
much of what I value about being Chicana, about my family, has been
subverted by anglo culture and my own cooperation with it.
