I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep — Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep — Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep — Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep — Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep — Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
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I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
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