Some Gloria Anzaldua quotes that shape my worldview:

“Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar.”

“To survive the Borderlands you must live sin fronteras be at a crossroads.”

“A border is a dividing line, a narrow strip along a steep edge. A borderland is a vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary. It is in a constant state of transition. The prohibited and forbidden are its inhabitants.”