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My name is Evangelina

I’m 20 & I'm from Texas
& I'm realistic & I'm romantic
& I'm an indecisive piece of shit:)

: A girl today told me that, in regards to race, she was...

lindsartist:

A girl today told me that, in regards to race, she was “colorblind”.

If this wasn’t already clear, THAT’S A PROBLEM.

Most often this statement is made by a white person (shocking, I know).

Let me lay this out for you:

You cannot be colorblind. You may not harbor feelings of hatred towards…

I LOVE THIS!

(Source: wrenartist)

Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice. Because I must keep the spirit of my revolt and myself alive. Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me. By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it. I write because life does not appease my appetites and hunger. I write to record what others erase when I speak, to rewrite the stories others have miswritten about me, about you. To become more intimate with myself and you. To discover myself, to preserve myself, to make myself, to achieve self-autonomy.

—Gloria Anzaldua (via pensivefrangipani)

Pen, I feel right at home in your ink doing a pirouette, stirring the cobwebs, leaving my signature on the windowpanes. Pen, how could I ever have feared you. You are quite housebroken but it’s your wildness I am in love with.

—Gloria Anzaldua (via pensivefrangipani)

radicalxic: Because I, a mestiza, continually walk out of one culture and into another, because I am in all cultures at the same time.  - Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa 

radicalxic:

Because I, a mestiza,

continually walk out of one culture

and into another,

because I am in all cultures at the same time. 

- Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa 

beyondpassionate: Mad respect for this woman. “Cradled in one culture, sandwiched between two cultures, straddling all three cultures and their value systems, la mestiza undergoes a struggle of flesh, a struggle of borders, an inner war. Like all people, we perceive the version of reality that our culture communicated. LIke others having or living more than one culture, we get multiple, often opposing messages. The coming together of two self-consistent but habitually incompatible frames of reference causes un choque, a cultural collision.” - Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa

beyondpassionate:

Mad respect for this woman.

“Cradled in one culture, sandwiched between two cultures, straddling all three cultures and their value systems, la mestiza undergoes a struggle of flesh, a struggle of borders, an inner war. Like all people, we perceive the version of reality that our culture communicated. LIke others having or living more than one culture, we get multiple, often opposing messages. The coming together of two self-consistent but habitually incompatible frames of reference causes un choque, a cultural collision.”

- Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa