Sunday, August 30, 2015

Quotes from "How to Tame a Wild Tongue"

Andrew Hamer
English 1100_35
August 30th, 2015
Young
How to Tame a Wild Tongue Quotes

"And I think, how do you tame a wild tongue, train it to be quiet, how do you bridle and saddle it? How do you make it lie down?"

Anzaldua, Gloria. "How to Tame a Wild Tongue." Teaching Developmental Writing. Ed. Susan  
          Naomi Bernstein. Fourth ed. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2013. 250. Print.

"There is the quiet of the Indian about us. We know how to survive. When other races have given up their tongue, we've kept ours."

Anzaldua, Gloria. "How to Tame a Wild Tongue." Teaching Developmental Writing. Ed. Susan  
          Naomi Bernstein. Fourth ed. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2013. 264. Print.

"So, if you want to really hurt me, talk badly about my language. Ethnic identity is twin skin to linguistic identity - I am my language."

Anzaldua, Gloria. "How to Tame a Wild Tongue." Teaching Developmental Writing. Ed. Susan  
          Naomi Bernstein. Fourth ed. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2013. 260. Print.

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