Gloria E. Anzaldúa - Face Quotes

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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

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

Nobody's going to save you. No one's going to cut you down, cut the thorns thick around you. No one's going to storm the castle walls nor kiss awake your birth, climb down your hair, nor mount you onto the white steed. There is no one who will feed the yearning. Face it. You will have to do, do it yourself.

Gloria E. Anzaldúa

These my two hands
quick to slap my face
before others could slap it.

Gloria E. Anzaldúa

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