In Nature, Creatures Never Ended

People Like To Think Of Themselves As Purists, But There Is No Such Thing As Purity, When There Exists So Much Contact.

I Think The Possibilities Are Endless In Terms Of What The Genre Would Be Like. However, In Terms Of Looking For Sources Of Money, I Think We Have To Be Very Careful Not To Fall Into Hollywood's Commodification Of Chicano Culture. We Could Look At The Example Of Piri Thomas, A Successful Puerto Rican Writer Now Living In The Bay Area, Who Has Received Repeated Offers From Hollywood...and He Said He's Not Going To Write About His People Doing Drugs And Going To Jail.

Something About Giving Himself Over To A Woman Was Worse Than Having Lunch With The Devil.

We Were Doing The Same Thing. We Will Never Have "a" Chicano English Or Spanish Because Of Regional Differences. But I Think That Because Of Our Bilingual History, We'll Always Be Speaking A Special Kind Of English And Spanish. What We Do Have To Do Is Fight For The Right To Use Those Two Languages In The Way That It Serves Us. Nuevo-mexicanos Have Done It Very Well For Hundreds Of Years, Inventing Words Where They Don't Have Them. I Think The Future Of Our Language Is Where We Claim Our Bilingualism For Its Utility.

When One Of Us Dies Of Cancer, Loses Her Mind, Or Commits Suicide, We Must Not Blame Her For Her Inability To Survive An Ongoing Political Mechanism Bent On The Destruction Of That Human Being. Sanity Remains Defined Simply By The Ability To Cope With Insane Conditions.