La Raza Quotes

“Same for the classic SF novels I grew up reading; Latinos weren't being written about, either. Did we die out in those futures? Did we not make it? Were we purposefully excluded?

Sometimes, we must write ourselves into the futures we want before we're left out of them by someone else.”
― Pedro Íñiguez, Mexicans on the Moon: Speculative Poetry from a Possible Future

“an obsession with self-definition can become a trap if that is all we think about, all we debate. If liberation terminology becomes an end in itself and our only end, it ceases to be a tool of liberation. Terms can be useful, even vital tools, but the house of La Raza that is waiting to be built needs many kinds.”
― Elizabeth Martínez, De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century

“Bodies slumped outside
grungy, crumbling tenements,
brown skin fading into translucence;
molecular degradation,
they're becoming as invisible as they feel
to a failing nation.”
― Pedro Íñiguez, Mexicans on the Moon: Speculative Poetry from a Possible Future