Top 30 Ana Castillo Quotes
#1. Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates.
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#3. 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 the dark. We are the evilor at least, the questionable.
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#4. You say your city the way some Americans say this is their country. You never feel right saying that - my country. For some reason looking Mexican means you can't be American.
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#5. If you wish to heal your sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of others. They are looking to you for guidance, help, courage, strength, understanding, and for assurance. Most of all, they are looking to you for love. He smiled.
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#6. 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 disorienting.
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#7. The man you love cooking for you is good for you too.
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#8. Something about giving himself over to a woman was worse than having lunch with the devil ...
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#9. 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 stars. i would like to tell her this but i think she already knows.
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#10. Protect him, yes, with my life; spare him of learning responsibility and to take care of himself, no. During
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#11. 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.
The important things.
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#12. I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.
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#13. Hell = where we get rid of all the lies told to us. That's where we go and cry like rain. Mom, hell is where you go to see yourself.
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#14. Once innocence
an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists
encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.
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#15. 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, with anyone, ever.
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#16. 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.
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#17. 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, my being the single mother of a young man.
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#18. Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.
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#19. Between the sun and poverty there was us for a little while.
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#20. Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.
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#21. To all the women and the men who ever loved me just a little.
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#22. But what had really happened, unfortunately, as ideal as it started out to be, was not that they had succeeded in becoming one, but that they had become neither.
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#23. 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 yourself a good lover won't see it either.
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#24. I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?
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#25. Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies ...
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#26. 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 bent on the destruction of that human being. Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.
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#27. And if you believe in God, I think She doesn't work that way either.
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#28. I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker.
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#29. I was just, like, not at all the office type; I was the artist type.
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#30. In what neighborhood - town or city, rural area or village in the country - could I raise a brown boy and believe that no harm could ever come to him, where
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