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Latinx Literature (Sexuality (Queerism (Emil Ferris ("I'd wait…

- - - - "The talk turned way out, on faggots and their asses which, swinging from side to side, could make a girl look ridiculous like she wasn't moving"
        (Thomas, 59)
  - - - "I'd wait for her to fall asleep and then I'd breathe in and our to get my lips dry because I wanted to put one of those "Sir Francis Drakey- type kisses very gentle on her hand but I always chickened out..."
    - - "But there were women exploring "wha their bodies were all about" and a whole chapter on lesbians. This Mami said, examining the pictures, to be ashamed of."
        (Alvarez, 110)
    - - “Queer Aztlán: The Re-formation of Chicano Tribe” My real politicization began, not through the Chicano Movement, but through the bold recognition of my lesbianism.
- - - - "I ain't black, damn you! Look at my hair. It's almost blond. My eyes are blue, my nose is straight. My mother fuckin' lips are not like a baboon's ass. My skin is white. White, goddamit! White! Maybe Poppa's a little dark, but that's the Indian blood in him. He's got white blood in him and-" (Thomas, 155)
      - "Like I said, man, you can be a n* if you want to," he said, as though he were talking with a ten-ton rock on his chest. "I don't now how you came to be my brother, but I love you like one. I've busted my ass, both me and James, trying to explain to people how come you so dark and how come your hair is so curly an'-" (Thomas, 157)
      - '"Hey, spic," came a shout from across the street. I started to turn to the voice and changed my mind. "Spic" wasn't my name. I knew that voice, though. It was Rocky's. We'll see ya again, spic,"he said."' (Thomas, 28)
- - - - "We are the bronze people with a bronze culture. Before the world, before all of North America, before all our brothers in the bronze continent, we are a nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we are Aztlan." (Rudolfo, 1).
    - - "1. WE WANT SELF-DETERMINATION FOR PUERTO RICANS. LIBERATION ON THE ISLAND AND INSIDE THE UNITED STATES. For 500 years, first Spain and then the united states have colonized our country. Billions of dollars in profits leave our country for the united states every year. In every way we are slaves of the gringo. We want liberation and the Power in the hands of the people, not Puerto Rican exploiters. QUE VIVA PUERTO RICO LIBRE!"
  - - - "Here lies Juan, Here lies Miguel, Here lies Milagros, Here lies Olga, Here lies Manuel who died yesterday today and will die again tomorrow, Always broke, Always owing, Never knowing" (Pietri, 260-269)
    - - Half blue, feet first/ she battled her way/ The world did not want another brown/ another slant-eyed-olive-indian-black-child/ Did not want another rainbow empowered song/ added to repertoire in blue/
    - - AmeRican;
        defining the new america, humane america,
        admired america, loved america
- - - - "This was a tough-looking block. That was good, that was cool, but my turf had been tough, too. I'm tough, a voice said within said."
        (Thomas, 52)
  - - - Borderlands La Frontera Humans fear the supernatural, both the undevine (the animal impulses such as sexuality, the unconscious, the unknown, the alien) and the devine (the superhuman, the god in us)
    - - "She has sat back quietly, hoping she has learned, at last, to let the mighty wave of tradition roll on through her life and break on some other female shore. She plans to bob up again after the many don’ts to do what she wants" (Alvarez, 9)
      - "Yoyo was on for bringing a book into the house, Our Bodies, Our Selves" (Alvarez, 234).
    - - "...he says I love you, I love you, I love you. I do not know if I am the first woman to walk up the aisle of St. George's with semen leaking down her leg, but I like to imagine that I am." The Husband Stitch