How to Tame a Wild Tongue Quotes by Gloria Anzaldua

1) "My tongue keeps pushing out the wads of cotton, pushing back the drills, the long thin needles."

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

3)"If a person, Chicana or Latina, has a low estimation of my native tongue, she also has a low estimation of me."