I am visible-see this Indian face-yet I am invisible. I both blind them with my beak nose and am their blind spot. But I exist, we exist. They'd like to think I have melted in the pot. But I haven't. We haven't.

Nothing happens in the 'real' world unless it first happens in the images in our heads

All reaction is limited by, and dependant on, what it is reacting against.

Do work that matters. Vale la pena

We cannot educate white women and take them by the hand. Most of us are willing to help but we can't do the white woman's homework for her. That's an energy drain. More times than she cares to remember, Nellie Wong, Asian American feminist writer, has been called by white women wanting a list of Asian American women who can give readings or workshops. We are in danger of being reduced to purvey­ors of resource lists.

Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create.

the world I create in writing compensates for what the real world does not give me.