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Top 30 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quotes (2025 Update)

Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quote: “Do work that matters. Vale la pena.”

1. “Do work that matters. Vale la pena.”

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quote: “I change myself, I change the world.”

2. “I change myself, I change the world.”

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

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Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quote: “To survive the Borderlands, you must live sin fronteras and be a crossroads.”

3. “To survive the Borderlands, you must live sin fronteras and be a crossroads.”

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quote: “I am mad – but I choose this madness.”

4. “I am mad – but I choose this madness.”

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quote: “Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one’s shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an “alien” element.”

5. “Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one’s shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an “alien” element.”

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quote: “A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.”

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

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quote: “I am an act of kneading, of uniting and joining that not only has produced both a creature of darkness and a creature of light, but also a creature that questions the definitions of light and dark and gives them new meanings.”

7. “I am an act of kneading, of uniting and joining that not only has produced both a creature of darkness and a creature of light, but also a creature that questions the definitions of light and dark and gives them new meanings.”

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quote: “Nothing happens in the ‘real’ world unless it first happens in the images in our heads.”

8. “Nothing happens in the ‘real’ world unless it first happens in the images in our heads.”

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quote: “What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.”

9. “What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.”

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quote: “I am playing with my Self, I am playing with the world’s soul, I am the dialogue between my Self and el espiritu del mundo. I change myself, I change the world.”

10. “I am playing with my Self, I am playing with the world’s soul, I am the dialogue between my Self and el espiritu del mundo. I change myself, I change the world.”

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quote: “Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears.”

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

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quote: “Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar.”

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

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quote: “Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice.”

15. “Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice.”

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quote: “But I’m more scared of not writing.”

16. “But I’m more scared of not writing.”

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quote: “Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. You are the truthsayer with quill and torch. Write with your tongues of fire. Don’t let the pen banish you from yourself.”

17. “Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. You are the truthsayer with quill and torch. Write with your tongues of fire. Don’t let the pen banish you from yourself.”

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quote: “Wild tongues can’t be tamed, they can only be cut out.”

18. “Wild tongues can’t be tamed, they can only be cut out.”

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quote: “The act of writing is the act of making soul, alchemy.”

19. “The act of writing is the act of making soul, alchemy.”

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quote: “In trying to become ‘objective,’ Western culture made ‘objects’ of things and people when it distanced itself from them, thereby losing ‘touch’ with them.”

21. “In trying to become ‘objective,’ Western culture made ‘objects’ of things and people when it distanced itself from them, thereby losing ‘touch’ with them.”

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quote: “We are taught that the body is an ignorant animal intelligence dwells only in the head. But the body is smart. It does not discern between external stimuli and stimuli from the imagination. It reacts equally viscerally to events from the imagination as it does to real events.”

22. “We are taught that the body is an ignorant animal intelligence dwells only in the head. But the body is smart. It does not discern between external stimuli and stimuli from the imagination. It reacts equally viscerally to events from the imagination as it does to real events.”

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quote: “Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create.”

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

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quote: “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...”

24. “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...”

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quote: “An image is a bridge between evoked emotion and conscious knowledge; words are the cables that hold up the bridge. Images are more direct, more immediate than words, and closer to the unconscious. Picture language precedes thinking in words; the metaphorical mind precedes analytical consciousness.”

25. “An image is a bridge between evoked emotion and conscious knowledge; words are the cables that hold up the bridge. Images are more direct, more immediate than words, and closer to the unconscious. Picture language precedes thinking in words; the metaphorical mind precedes analytical consciousness.”

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quote: “Enough of passivity and passing time while waiting for the boy friend, the girl friend, the Goddess, or the Revolution.”

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

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quote: “I am visible-see this Indian face-yet I am invisible. I both blind them with my beak nose and am their blind spot. But I exist, we exist. They’d like to think I have melted in the pot. But I haven’t. We haven’t.”

27. “I am visible-see this Indian face-yet I am invisible. I both blind them with my beak nose and am their blind spot. But I exist, we exist. They’d like to think I have melted in the pot. But I haven’t. We haven’t.”

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quote: “By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it.”

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

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quote: “All reaction is limited by, and dependant on, what it is reacting against.”

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

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quote: “Write in the kitchen, lock yourself up in the bathroom. Write on the bus or the welfare line, on the job or during meals.”

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

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quote: “I can’t seem to stay out of my own way.”

31. “I can’t seem to stay out of my own way.”

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

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