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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.