Yo no soy mexicano. Yo no soy gringo. Yo no soy chicano. No soy gringo en USA y mexicano en Mexico. Soy chicano en todas partes. No tengo que asimilarme a nada. Tengo mi propia historia.
Carlos FuentesTags: immigration culture us-history méxico chicano mexican-american carlos-fuentes border frontera la-frontera-de-cristal mexican-american-history mexicano mexico-us
OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, tho’ they come from the ends of the earth!
She needed Andrew Simpson Smith, it was that simple. And he had spent his life training to help people like her. Gods.
"Okay, Andrew. But let's leave today. I'm in a hurry."
"Of course. Today." He stroked the place where his slight beard was beginning to grow. "These ruins where your friends are waiting? Where are they?"
Tally glances up at the sun, still low enough to indicate the eastern horizon. After a moment's calculation, she pointed off to the northwest, back toward the city and beyond that, the Rusty Ruins. "About a week's walk that way."
"A week?"
"That means seven days."
"Yes, I know the gods' calendar," he said huffily. "But a whole week?"
"Yeah. That's not so far, is it?" The hunters had been tireless on their march the night before.
He shook his head, an awed expression on his face. "But that is beyond the edge of the world.
A safe army is better than a safe border
B.R. AmbedkarTags: politics security army border
There are no clear borders,
Only merging invisible to the sight.
Tags: wisdom poetry literature invisible quotes thoughts invisibility sight clear border borders poetry-quotes quotes-to-live-by merging literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic circling clear-borders
It takes so little, so infinitely little, for someone to find himself on the other side of the border, where everything - love, convictions, faith, history - no longer has meaning. The whole mystery of human life resides on the fact that it is spent in the immediate proximity of, and even in direct contact with, that border, that it is separated from it not by kilometers but by barely a millimeter.
Milan KunderaTags: forgetting border meaningless
You can only exceed your limits if you’ve discovered them.
Roel van SleeuwenTags: greatness discovery limit boundaries limits great discover boundary border borders be-great exceed discovered exceeding go-beyond
Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced; it also imprisons the protected.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: security crime protection imprisonment border fence double-edged-sword
So the Juárez/El Paso area before the recent drug violence was not a bilingual, bi-national, bicultural Zion, but it was one world. One entity. One place. One city where you could live in between worlds, and have the hope of creating something new. A third way to be, not along the border, but on the border.
That is what the violence has destroyed, that unity, however tenuous it ever was. It has destroyed the idea of that unity and the reality of living so uniquely astride an international border. This ‘real idea’ was always a work-in-progress, and for the moment it is lost. Yet that real idea of unity had great value.
Tags: mexico drug-war borderlands border mexico-drug-war sergio-troncoso borderland
I am in between. Trying to write to be understood by those who matter to me, yet also trying to push my mind with ideas beyond the everyday. It is another borderland I inhabit. Not quite here nor there. On good days I feel I am a bridge. On bad days I just feel alone.
Sergio TroncosoTags: immigration chicano latino border borders immigrant-experience hispanic immigrant-values sergio-troncoso
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