When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.

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

The revolution begins at home.

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.

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.

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

To assess the damage is a dangerous act.