Demetria Martinez

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Average rating: 3.67 · 163 ratings · 21 reviews · 7 distinct works

	Mother Tongue 3.62 avg rating — 114 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Devil's Workshop: Poems 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Breathing Between the Lines: Poems 3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Grandpa's Magic Tortilla by Demetria Martinez, Rosalee Montoya-Read, Lisa May Casaus (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Three Times a Woman by Alicia Gaspar De Alba, Demetria Martinez 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1989	My rating:
	Comadres: Hispanic Women of the Rio Puerco Valley by Nasario Garcia, Demetria Martinez 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1997	My rating:

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“Lately, when asked, I have tended to say that I'm Mexican. I like the word because it still makes so many people flinch.”
― Demetria Martinez, Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana

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“No one lacks voice. Not even the dead. But many lack ears, the ability to hear those stories out of which the most destitute of people are forging their destines, breathing life into bleached bones. ”
― Demetria Martinez, Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana

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“Mother, father, there is no passing the cup. I want to be a troublemaker when I grow up.”
― Demetria Martinez

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