Massacre of the Dreamers Quotes

“But wisdom is not only in letters. They knew how to foal their horses, how to sow and grow wheat in winter, how to choose and bend the wood to make their eight-foot-tall bows and hunt for their food, and how to build a house of mud bricks and paint larger than life on its foremost wall an image of one of their guiding icons: either our thousand-hectare winged eagle, or the proud white stag who could be hunted, but ought never be killed; or what my grandfather called “the majesty-horse” who runs like the wind and leaves flames of fire in his hoof prints.”
― Ana Castillo, Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma

“group of any time and place in this world has also been overwritten, erased, represented falsely . . . and both slaughtered and enslaved—by a more powerful group—often using as tactics terror, murder, and starvation.”
― Ana Castillo, Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma