my Mamá Grande, a tiny Mayan woman, took me aside when I was an adolescent and told me several things that didn't make a bit of sense to my young and…

- Ana Castillo

What you perceive as "liberal" is my independence to choose what i do, with whom, and when. Moreover, it also means that i may choose not to do it, w…

- Ana Castillo

Our goal should be to achieve joy

- Ana Castillo

I feel that it's very important for young people to have a sense of history and do research and don't re-invent the wheel and don't think that you're…

- Ana Castillo

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

- Ana Castillo

There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, m…

- Ana Castillo

It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a poor person of color…

- Ana Castillo

I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorientin…

- Ana Castillo

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 …

- Ana Castillo