You know you have that zealousness of the young person that feels like you can go out and do it all. You know you save the world, save your gente, sa….

We were doing the same thing. We will never have "a" Chicano English or Spanish because of regional differences. But I think that because of our bili….

I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American..

The writers who have been serious about recreating American literature have always been far and few between. What we do have at the end of the 20th c….

For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman..

We live in a polarized world of contrived dualisms, dichotomies and paradoxes: light vs. dark and good vs. evil. We as Mexic Amerindians/mestizas are….

Women Are Not Roses Women have no beginning only continual flows. Though rivers flow women are not rivers. Women are not roses they are not oceans or….

When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an ongoing political mechanism ….

In nature, creatures never ended the lives of others except to survive. To women, abortion was self-defense and preservation of the species. Abortion….

People like to think of themselves as purists, but there is no such thing as purity, when there exists so much contact..

Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates..

Whatever it is that people find that they want to work on they also have to remember that they are human beings and they need to save some time for t….

According to our social pyramid, all men who feel displaced racially, culturally, and/or because of economic hardships will turn on those whom they f….

Many European countries are fascinated with minorities from the United States. They still see this country as a world power and they covet that power….

I had serious reservations about putting my son in the public schools in my area. I have a tremendous amount of fear for the future of my boy. He's n….

Between the sun and poverty there was us for a little while..

To all the women and the men who ever loved me just a little..

Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you..

Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart. Th….

A good lover will do that, see something worthwhile in you that you never knew was there. And when there's something you don't like to see in yoursel….

I was just, like, not at all the office type; I was the artist type..