Gloria Anzaldúa | Borderlands/La Frontera

“To this day I’m not sure where I found the strength to leave the source, the mother, disengage from my family, mi tierra, mi gente, and all that picture stood for. I had to leave home so I could find myself, find my own intrinsic nature buried under the personality that had been imposed to me…

…There is a rebel in me—the Shadow-Beast. It is part of me that refuses to take orders from outside authorities. It refuses to take orders from my conscious will, it threatens the sovereignty of my rulership. It is that part of me that hates constraints of any kind, even those self-imposed. At the last hint of limitations on my time or space by others, it kicks out with both feet. Bolts.” Gloria Anzaldúa