The Man You Love Cooking For You

The Writers Who Have Been Serious About Recreating American Literature Have Always Been Far And Few Between. What We Do Have At The End Of The 20th Century That We Didn't Have At The Beginning, At That Time Of The Lost Generation Of Rich White Boys, Is A Mixture. We're Now Getting Gay Writers Of Color, Let's Say, And Women Of Color Being Published. This Is Unprecedented.

Women Are Not Roses Women Have No Beginning Only Continual Flows. Though Rivers Flow Women Are Not Rivers. Women Are Not Roses They Are Not Oceans Or Stars. I Would Like To Tell Her This But I Think She Already Knows.

To All The Women And The Men Who Ever Loved Me Just A Little.

We Were Doing The Same Thing. We Will Never Have "a" Chicano English Or Spanish Because Of Regional Differences. But I Think That Because Of Our Bilingual History, We'll Always Be Speaking A Special Kind Of English And Spanish. What We Do Have To Do Is Fight For The Right To Use Those Two Languages In The Way That It Serves Us. Nuevo-mexicanos Have Done It Very Well For Hundreds Of Years, Inventing Words Where They Don't Have Them. I Think The Future Of Our Language Is Where We Claim Our Bilingualism For Its Utility.

According To Our Social Pyramid, All Men Who Feel Displaced Racially, Culturally, And/or Because Of Economic Hardships Will Turn On Those Whom They Feel They Can Order And Humiliate, Usually Women, Children, And Animals--just As They Have Been Ordered And Humiliated By Those Privileged Few Who Are In Power. However, This Definition Does Not Explain Why There Are Privileged Men Who Behave This Way Toward Women.