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.

The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.

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.

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.