Anzaldua: "The Gringo, locked into the fiction of white superiority, seized complete political power, stripping Indians and Mexicans of their land while their feet were still rooted in it. Con el destierro y el exilio fuimos desuñados, destroncasdos, destripados-we were jerked out by the roots, truncated, disemboweled, dispossessed, and separate from our identity and our history" (Anzaldua, 29).
