Until I am free to write ...

Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, while I still have to speak English or Spanish when I would rather speak Spanglish, and as long as I have to accommodate the English speakers rather than having them accommodate me, my tongue will be illegitimate. I will no longer be made to feel ashamed of existing. I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.
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 Gloria E. Anzaldúa

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Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar.
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Enough of passivity and passing time while waiting for the boy friend, the girl friend, the Goddess, or the Revolution.
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