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I am mad - but I choose this madness.


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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.



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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.



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



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



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.

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.



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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.



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Nothing happens in the 'real' world unless it first happens in the images in our heads



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.

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.



I change myself, I change the world.

I change myself, I change the world.





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