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

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

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.

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.

In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.

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

Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom - give meaning to our lives.