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  1. Sep 2020
    1. There in the l,owell School cafeteri;rI sarv my first still-life painting, beaudful anddifferent {L'od

      People with money get luxury and their world is full of color while for them the world is gray?

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    1. Dime con quien andas y le dire quien eres.

      My mom always tells me this. It's like whoever you surround yourself with says a lot about you. Another saying that relates to this is like if there you're not a rotten apple, but they put you with rotten apples, you will become a rotten apple.

    2. nosotros los mexicanos (by mexicanos we do not mean citi-zens of Mexko; we do not mean a national identity, but a racial one).

      This is true! We don't call ourselves mexican-american we simply say we're Mexicans, because we are one. The borders don't separate us we aren't an us and them.

    3. Chicanas who grew up speaking Chicano Spanish have internal-ized the belief that we speak poor Spanish. It is illegitimate, a bastard language. And because we internaHze how our language has been used against us by the dominant culture, we use our lan-guage differences against each other.

      Big facts! When you speak two languages the old minded custom people want you to speak their language not mix them together and if you do its poor Spanish and english. They're used to speaking it one way so not speaking it like them is just wrong for them.

    4. ookiar for cook, watchar for watch, parkiar for park, and rapiar for rape,

      Many Mexicans find this so inappropriate in their household and will correct you every single time. They say this is just pure laziness and you can't just change an english word into Spanish by adding an ar at the end of every word.

    5. GLORIA ANZALDUA How to Tame a Wild Tongue Gloria Anzaldua was born in 1942 in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. At age eleven. she began working in the fields as a migrant worker and then on her family's land after the death of her father. Working her way through school, she eventually became a schoolteacher and then an academic, speaking and writing about feminist, lesbian, and Chi-cana issues and about autobiography. She is best known for This Bridge CalJed My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color ( 1981), which she edited with Cherrie Moraga, and BorderlandsfLa Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987). Anzaldua died in 2004. "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" is from BorderlandsfLa Frontera. In it, Anzaldua is concerned with many kinds of borders -between nations, cultures, classes, genders, languages. When she writes, "So, if you want to really hurt me, talk badly about my language" (par. 27), Anzaldua is arguing for the ways in which identity is intertwined with the way we speak and for the ways in which people can be made to feel ashamed of their own tongues. Keeping hers wild -ignoring the closing of linguistic borders-is Anzaldua's way of asserting her identity. "We're going to have to control your tongue,"

      I feel like many do this because they don't like the power we have over them by being able to speak two languages. They don't like that they're not able to understand and in our favor is power.

    6. Chicano Spanish is not incorrect, it is a living language.

      I never looked at it as it being our very own language. In a way it's also a mix of Spanglish, because a lot of us Latinos use both Spanish and english words when we speak. I stopped because I thought I was improperly speaking or at least that's how many made me feel until one of my teachers told me it was okay to do so.

    7. Chicanas use noso tros whether we're male or female. We are robbed of our female being by the masculine plural. Language is a male discourse.

      I never looked at it this way. Many of the people I know and I like to be called Latinos rather than being called Latinx to not "generalize." Maybe we're so used to the masculine plural that having our own is just weird? I see it more as we have our own "Latinas" while the men only have one "latinos" which also includes the women.

    8. Pa' hallar buen trabajo tienes que 5 saber hablar el ingles bien. Que vale toda lu educaci6 n si todav{a !tablas ingles con un 'accent:

      I don't think having an accent is wrong its part of your culture. You know how to speak it, you're say it how it is, it just sounds a little bit different. Nowadays jobs look for bilingual people so being able to speak both is great!

    9. "If you want to be American, speak 'American.' If you don't like it, go back to Mexico where you belong."

      How can one say this? Every language is beautiful and even so how is speaking Spanish related to Mexicans? All Latinos including some Spaniard speak Spanish.

    1. Where else but in a prison could I have attacked myignorance by being able to study intensely sometimes as much as fifteen hours a day?

      You're right! The so called"free world" has so many distractions that no is able to actually "study intensely". There's always parties, clubs, organization, etc. And even so some that go to college don't even learn sometimes. they just remember and study what's going to be on the exam and then forget and repeat.

    2. Myhomemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit moresensitivity to the deafness

      Since college wasn't really teaching black history in America, Malcom saw no point in earning a college degree. His homemade education gave him the power to decide what he learned about.

    3. Over 115 million African blacks — close to the 1930s population of the United States— were murdered or enslaved during the slave trade.

      How does it get to this point?

    4. through the night they went from one plantation “big house” to the next,killing, until by the next morning 57 white people were dead and Nat had about 70 slavesfollowing him.

      It gets to a point where the cards flip and they start doing exactly what the whites are doing to them. If they don't fight for themselves then who will? But is this the correct way to fight back?

    5. t if you started with a blackman, a white man could be produced; but starting with a white man, you never could producea black man

      It's crazy to see how science works

    6. Let me tell you something:from then until I left that prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in thelibrary, I was reading on my bunk.

      I loved reading as much as he did back when I was younger, but I think once I got to hs reading was demanded too much from us to a point where we weren't reading to learn, but reading to remember what we needed to fo a quiz.

    7. he dictionary had apicture of it, a long-tailed, long-eared, burrowing African mammal, which lives off termitescaught by sticking out its tongue as an anteater does for ants

      I know back when I was in 5th grade I felt like I lacked in vocabulary and read the dictionary as well! Having an image to relate back to the word defiantly helps and defiantly helped me remember them.

    8. I had commanded attention when I said something. Butnow, trying to write simple English, I not only wasn’t articulate, I wasn’t even functional.

      I personally know someone that currently is able to write very well in english, but not so much when it comes to speaking it. I know the frustration he felt at being able to do one but not the other. Many opportunities come from being able to do both and many can be revoked/denied because of the lack of literacy skills.

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