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.

The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country - a border culture.

Do work that matters. Vale la pena

The act of writing is the act of making soul, alchemy.

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

But I'm more scared of not writing.

To survive the Borderlands you must live sin fronteras be a crossroads.