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“This Bridge Called My Back intends to reflect an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color in the U.S.”
― Cherríe L. Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

“Piri Thomas' book Down These Mean Streets followed me around for years, in the corner of my eye on bus terminal bookracks. Finally, in a gritted teeth desperation I faced the damn thing and said "OK, tell me." I sweated my way through it in two nights: Gang fights, knifings, robberies, smack, prison. It's the standard Puerto Rican street story, except he lived. The junkies could be my younger brothers. The prisoners could be them. I could be the prostitute, the welfare mother, the sister and lover of junkies, the child of alcoholics. There is nothing but circumstance and good English, nothing but my mother marrying into the middle class, between me and that life.”
― Aurora Levins Morales

“someone who did languages for a living stopped me in the subway because how I spoke was a linguist's treat
I mean there it was yiddish and Spanish and fine refined college educated english and irish which I mainly keep in my prayers”
― Rosario Morales, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

“I am what I am Take it or leave me alone.”
― Rosario Morales, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color