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Mango Street

I want to be
like the waves on the sea,
like the clouds in the wind,
but I'm me.
One day I'll jump
out of my skin
I'll shake the sky
like a hundred violins.

- Sandra Cisneros, "House on Mango Street", Photo by Ray Sebastian

Dig deep dig deep the writings of Chicana authors have whispered to me. You aren't your color, you aren't your gender, you aren't a wife, mother or daughter. Spark. You are a song you are a shout you are a dream you are a state of being.

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