Isabel Quintero quotes

Living on the hyphen is a complex cultural existence at times, and we're often pulled in many directions where allegiance is always demanded. It is a fractured state of being, though I don't think it's necessarily bad; at least the having multiple ways of looking at life-the Mexican and American/the male and female. Where that goes awry is when we want to make one way of approaching life, The One Way. That's where things begin to disintegrate, loyalties are questioned, and patriarchies are born... (Isabel Quintero)
It is an American story. And it's a Mexican story. I'm the child of immigrants. Being the child of immigrants is always this liminal space of, where do I fit in? It is complex. And the older I get, the more complex it becomes. I was born here. What I celebrate is the America that I grew up in-it's very brown, it's very Mexican... View quote
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This negation of our existence, and the omitting of our stories and histories, is one of the reasons I write - I write to exist. We cannot escape our past; our past determines what choices we make for the future. It determines how we act, how we see ourselves... View quote
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