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Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice.
Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Age: 61 †
Born: 1942
Born: September 26
Died: 2004
Died: May 15
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Gloria E. Anzaldua
Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa
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To separate from my culture (as from my family) I had to feel competent enough on the outside and secure enough inside to live life on my own. Yet in leaving home I did not lose touch with my origins because lo mexicano is in my system. I am a turtle, wherever I go I carry 'home' on my back.
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Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create.
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The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country - a border culture.
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Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar.
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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.
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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.
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By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it.
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Enough of passivity and passing time while waiting for the boy friend, the girl friend, the Goddess, or the Revolution.
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Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears.
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