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Estela Portillo-Trambley
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“I was not really of the barrio, but the barrio was an important part of my life. Spanish was my first language; English was the language of my reading world. This was the world I lived in—an idealistic world, and unreal world that filled my senses with hopes, with joy and identification…”
Estela Portillo-Trambley (1936–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Deep in my psyche, I am no different than any American—I have a greater command of their language than they do. I am a composite of all of the heroines in the books I’ve read—legendary, mythological, fictional ones. I wonder if I am real? I want to be!”
Estela Portillo-Trambley (1936–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’ve always been at the peripheries of the Chicano Movement because the Chicano world does not consider me Chicana enough. They, however, respect me as a writer…”
Estela Portillo-Trambley (1936–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I was a child, poverty was a common suffering for everybody around me. A common suffering is a richness in itself.”
Estela Portillo-Trambley (1936–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source