Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.

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.

But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.

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.

The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth

Third World feminism is about feeding people in all their hungers.