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.

The revolution begins at home.

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

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 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.

we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.

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