About me...queer Xicana/indigenous internationalist artist/cultural worker who enjoys these quotes....
"No tenemos papeles" is the first sentance the southern descendants of Native America learn to swallow when thet cross, as Mexicans, into the United States. It's the same sentance we Xicanos, as their children, have learned to swallow. "No tenemos papeles " to prove we remember this California to be Indian, a land undivided from our Native Mexico, and as such, we remain beholden to it." Cherrie Moraga
"Learning about our indigenismo is a way of learning about ourselves, an acceptance of oneself as an individual and of her/his people. Then we may educate the world, including our own communites, about ourselves. But more importantly, it will show us another way of seeing life and the world we live in now."-Ana Castillo, Massacre of the Dreamers.
"Power condedes nothing without demand. It never did and it never will." Fredrick Douglas
"Culture is an indispensible weapon in the freedom struggle."-Malcolm X
"When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation."- Cherrie Moraga
"The role of the revolutionary artist is to make revolution irresistible." -Toni Cade Bambara
"Look at situations as contingent, not as inevitable, look at them as the result of a series of historical choices made by men and women, as facts of society made by human beings, and not as natural or god-given, therefore unchangeable, permanent, irreversible." Edward Said
"Human beings can have lessons of things that happened in the past, in history, and say Look, this is what happens. But somehow people sometimes won't pay attention, won't listen and we have to suffer through and have to learn again, remember all over again why it is that we have to have a certain respect or care for hard work and for working with one another. There is no magic that is going to hand things over." Leslie Marmon Silko
"Functionaries don't function.
Politicians speak but say nothing.
Voters vote but don't elect.
The information media disinform.
Schools teach ignorance.
Judges punish the victims.
The military makes war against its compatriots.
The police don't fight crime because they are too busy committing it.
Bankruptcies are socialized while profits are privatized.
Money is freer than people are.
People are at the service of things."
-Eduardo Galeano, Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World
"Mira la escencia, no las apariencias/
Mira la escencia, no las apariencias/
El cuerpo es solo un estuche y los ojos la ventana/
De nuestra alma aprisionada" Aterciopelados
"there's an invasion takin' place in and around the nation
we been ready for change and we tired of waitin'
it ain't about reform it's about replacement
in order to catch freedom yo we got to chase it
we sick of askin for it now it's time to take it
make sure the struggles of our ancestors ain't wasted
it ain't complicated it's about the basics
food clothes shelter health care education..." Kiwi
