Ana Castillo Quotes

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• 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.

  Ana Castillo

  Lovers, Worthwhile, Good Lovers

  Ana Castillo (2000). “Peel My Love Like an Onion: A Novel”, Anchor

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• Hispanic gives us all one ultimate paternal cultural progenitor: Spain. The diverse cultures already on the American shores when the Europeans arrived, as well as those introduced because of the African slave trade, are completely obliterated by the term. Hispanic is nothing more than a concession made by the U. S. legislature when they saw they couldn't get rid of us. If we won't go away, why not at least Europeanize us, make us presentable guests at the dinner table, take away our feathers and rattles and civilize us once and for all.

  Ana Castillo

  Giving, Diversity, Going Away

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• 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.

  Ana Castillo

  Stars, Ocean, Thinking

  Ana Castillo (1984). “Women are Not Roses”, Arte Publico Press

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• Our goal should be to achieve joy

  Ana Castillo

  Goal, Joy, Achieve

  Ana Castillo (1994). “Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma”

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• 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?

  Ana Castillo

  White, Want, Brown

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• 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.

  Ana Castillo

  Heart, Mind, Important

  Ana Castillo (2000). “Peel My Love Like an Onion: A Novel”, Anchor

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• I definitely do see language serving its users, and when it no longer serves them we need to look for new words.

  Ana Castillo

  Language, Users

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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• 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.

  Ana Castillo

  Chicago, Whole Life, Displacement

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• I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.

  Ana Castillo

  Parent, Citizens, American Citizens

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• 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.

  Ana Castillo

  Mother, Men, Spirituality

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• Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.

  Ana Castillo

  Men, Needs, Sexuality

  Ana Castillo (1995). “Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma”, Plume Books

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• Whatever it is that people find that they want to work on they also have to remember that they are human beings and they need to save some time for themselves for personal growth, for mental health, for their families, their loved ones so that they will have the strength to continue doing that work.

  Ana Castillo

  People, Growth, Remember

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• 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.

  Ana Castillo

  Mean, Independence, May

  Ana Castillo (1994). “Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma”

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• It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a poor person of color to be a racist. Such extreme prejudice must be accompanied by the power of society's approval and legislation. While women and poor people of color may become intolerant, personally abusive, even hateful, they do not have enough power to be racist or sexist.

  Ana Castillo

  Power, Men, Color

  Ana Castillo (1995). “Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma”, Plume Books

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• 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.

  Ana Castillo

  Suicide, Cancer, Political

  Ana Castillo (1995). “Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma”, Plume Books

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• 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.

  Ana Castillo

  Men, Roles, World

  Ana Castillo (1995). “Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma”, Plume Books

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• To all the women and the men who ever loved me just a little.

  Ana Castillo

  Men, Littles

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• Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.

  Ana Castillo

  Sin, Without You, Violation

  Ana Castillo (2008). “Loverboys”, p.87, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In nature, creatures never ended the lives of others except to survive. To women, abortion was self-defense and preservation of the species. Abortion was not a fancy borne out of the female mind. Abortion was instinct beyond ideas. Abortion was fear (the cat that devours its litter when a predator nears).

  Ana Castillo

  Cat, Self, Ideas

  Ana Castillo (1990). “Sapogonia: (an Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter)”, Bilingual Press

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• 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.

  Ana Castillo

  Encounters, Innocence, Transformation

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• Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates.

  Ana Castillo

  Mexico, Melancholy, Embrace

  Norma Alarcón, Ana Castillo, Cherríe Moraga (1989). “Third Woman”

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• my Mamá Grande, a tiny Mayan woman, took me aside when I was an adolescent and told me several things that didn't make a bit of sense to my young and inattentive ears, and as young people tend to waste all attempts of our elders to relay to us wisdom accumulated over the decades, I thought my Mamá Grande had a few mice in the attic.

  Ana Castillo

  People, Ears, Waste

  Ana Castillo (1994). “Sapogonia: An Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter”, Anchor Books

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• When I hear that Jennifer Lopez is such a role model for Latinas, on the one hand I respect her for her business sense and I respect her for her ambition. But she's in the entertainment world. She's done it on her looks and very specifically on her anatomy. Madonna is also considered a great businesswoman and so is Yoko Ono. I feel if I had a young daughter right now, I would feel a little discouraged if that was my daughter's primary role model for success and for young people, for Latinas and Latinos.

  Ana Castillo

  Daughter, Ambition, Role Models

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• Many European countries are fascinated with minorities from the United States. They still see this country as a world power and they covet that power...I was approached by a professor once at the Sorbonne in Paris and asked about racism in this country, and when I reflected on racism on the streets of Paris - you know, I'd be considered an Arab there -well, she didn't want to address that...It just goes to show it was easier for Europeans to study racism in the United States than it is from within the belly of the beast.

  Ana Castillo

  Country, Racism, World

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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• There’s something insupportable about being pissed with the one person on this planet that sends your adrenaline flowing to remind you that you’re alive. It’s almost like we’re mad because we’ve been shocked out of our usual comatose state of being by feeling something for someone, for ourselves, for just a moment.

  Ana Castillo

  Mad, Feelings, Usual

  Ana Castillo (2008). “Loverboys”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

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