This Bridge We Call Home Quotes

“But there are no safe spaces. 'Home' can be unsafe and dangerous because it bears the likelihood of intimacy and thus thinner boundaries. Staying 'home' and not venturing out from our group comes from woundedness, and stagnates our growth. To bridge means loosening our borders, not closing off to others. Bridging is the work of opening the gate to the stranger, within and without.”
― Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation

“I meet you with my heart in my hand.”
― Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation

“An image flickers—nonverbal, brief, and subtle—signaling otro conocimiento: besides the mortal body you have a trans-temporal, immortal one. This knowing prompts you to shift into a new perception of yourself and the world. Nothing is fixed. The pulse of existence, the heart of the universe, is fluid. Identity, like a river, is always changing, always in transition, always in nepantla. Like the river downstream, you’re not the same person you were upstream. You begin to define yourself in terms of who you are becoming, not who you have been.”
― Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation

“Your identity is a filtering screen limiting your awareness to a fraction of your reality. What you or your cultures believe to be true is provisional and depends on a specific perspective. What your eyes, ears, and other physical senses perceive is not the whole picture but one determined by your core beliefs and prevailing societal assumptions. What you live through and the knowledge you infer from experience is subjective. Intuitive knowing, unmediated by mental constructs--what inner eye, heart, and gut tell you--is the closest you come to direct knowledge (gnosis) of the world, and this experience of reality is partial too.”
― Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation