#chicano

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us. ↗

— Luis Valdez

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#freedom #history #liberty #native-american #society

We’re afraid the others will think we’re agringadas because we don’t speak Chicano Spanish. We oppress each other trying to out-Chicano each other, vying to be “real” Chicanas, to speak like Chicanos. There is no one Chicano language just as there is no one Chicano experience. ↗

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

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#chicano #chicanos #identity #internalized-racism #experience

I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences. ↗

— Gary Soto

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#poetry #first-sentence