Chicana Quotes

#1. right" way to be Chicana/o also could be a hegemonic discourse and exclusionary of those who do not fit. They recognized the possibility of multiple hegemonic structures and the danger of policing claims to identity.

Dolores Delgado Bernal

#2. I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.

Sandra Cisneros

#3. I am the daughter of a Chicana and anglo. I think most days I am an embarrassment to both groups. I sometimes hate the white in me so viciously that I long to forget the commitment my skin has imposed upon my life.

Cherrie Moraga

#4. We're afraid the others will think we're agringadas because we don't speak Chicano Spanish. We oppress each other trying to out-Chicano each other, vying to be "real" Chicanas, to speak like Chicanos. There is no one Chicano language just as there is no one Chicano experience.

Gloria E. Anzaldua

#5. Ideal relationship is based on giving.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#6. What pillow can one have like a good conscience?

John Steinbeck

#7. Our driver policy was partly dictated by who was available because of other contracts.

John Surtees

#8. How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now. And that there will never be a time when it is not now.

Gerald G. Jampolsky

#9. Still blows my mind that toilet paper isn't free.

Kristen Schaal

#10. When i write, i'm capable of having a girl of my dreams. She may not be perfect, but she's mine. And i'm her role model for God.

Ariel Seraphino

#11. Shower the people you love with love.

James Taylor

#12. If you have a lip ring try hanging some tiny keys from it. This will make you look even more interesting.

Demetri Martin

#13. Looks like Egor is a quick draw, Ms. Baird. There are pills for that, you know.

Nalini Singh

#14. At every moment I convinced myself that I was gathering material for the novel of my life - all experienced from the philosophical distance of the author. Even these humiliating occasions when I was robbed could be used as material. Life was a field trip.

Edmund White

#15. We've just barely stopped being monkeys.

Duncan Trussell

#16. If you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere

Billy Sunday

#17. You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.

Yanni

#18. You can learn, but you've got to give yourself time to pick up the basics, to practice, and maybe even to fail once or twice.

Susan Forward

#19. You are more ready and able to grasp at opportunity when your hands are empty.

Christy Hall