#zed

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

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

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#asia #civilized #going #methods #much

You cannot limit yourself to one area of specialized craft. Instead, regardless of craft, you have to charge all forms of expression that lead to the community, to other people, with meaning. ↗

— Alexander Kluge

#cannot #charge #community #craft #expression

I thought that if you come across as a freak, there will be some kind of distance. Maybe the distance became excessive. I realized that people were afraid of me without knowing me. ↗

— Thomas Kretschmann

#afraid #became #come #distance #excessive

I woke up many mornings not knowing what I'd done the night before. I'm amazed I'm not dead. ↗

— Ashton Kutcher

#before #dead #done #i #knowing

The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#alien #america #bulwark #conscious #decent

I went looking for dresses and realized there was a niche I could fill in the wedding dress market. ↗

— Monique Lhuillier

#dress #dresses #fill #i #looking

After my swims this weekend I think coach realized, you know what, you have to have a good one getting out of this meet. So I put the suit on and had a decent swim. ↗

— Ryan Lochte

#coach #decent #getting #good #had

I just realized how long it was since the last album, and where did the time go? You know? ↗

— Jeff Lynne

#did #go #how #i #just

What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#been #composing #i #realized #visualized