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I change myself, I change the world.

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

A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.

But I'm more scared of not writing.

Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar.

I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep

Though we tremble before uncertain futures
may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength
may we dance in the face of our fears.

I am mad - but I choose this madness.

Depression is useful. It signals that you need to make changes in your life, it challenges your tendency to withdraw, it reminds you to take action.

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

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

This land was Mexican once,
was Indian always
and is.
And will be again.

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

These my two hands / quick to slap my face / before others could slap it.

Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?

I can't seem to stay out of my own way.

Write in the kitchen, lock yourself up in the bathroom. Write on the bus or the welfare line, on the job or during meals.

Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar.
(Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks.)

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

By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it.

I had to leave home so I could find myself, find my own intrinsic nature buried under the personality that had been imposed on me.

Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out.

Do work that matters. Vale la pena

Enough of passivity and passing time while waiting for the boy friend, the girl friend, the Goddess, or the Revolution.

I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods out of my entrails ...