we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.

Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.

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

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

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

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.

we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.