Ed Morales > Quotes

“Liberate yourself from the white/black dichotomy!”
― Ed Morales, Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America

“When I speak of Spanglish I'make talking about a fertile terrain for negotiating a new identity. I'make feeling excited, as Gloria Anzldua did in her book Borderlands/LA Frontera,about "participating in the creation of another culture/in a state of perpetual transition/with a tolerance for ambiguity.”
― Ed Morales, Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America

“Lastly, it’s been a place where the United States could experiment with tax policies that allowed for the accumulation of capital under conditions that were virtually offshore yet still within US territory and under the laws of the US banking system.”
― Ed Morales, Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico

“Puerto Rico was out of time wasn’t because it had no remaining strategies to continue trying to negotiate down the debt; severely limited as it was by the lack of bankruptcy protection and lack of sovereignty, it still could have lobbied the US government on humanitarian grounds. What Puerto Rico had run out of time for was the illusion that it had autonomy over its affairs, that its residents had full US citizenship, that it had anything resembling a self-directed economy.”
― Ed Morales, Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico

“The academic establishment. . . . argue over the diminution of Spanish because of the introduction of new Spanish words that are literally translations of England glish--parquear, the park of "park," tales the plancelebratory of the more elegant estacionar which could be literally translated as "stationing.”
― Ed Morales, Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America

“At the root of Spanglish is a very universal state of being. It is a dis placement from one place, home, to another place, home, in which feels at home in both places, Yet at home in neither place. It is a kind of banging-one's-head-against-the-wall state, and the only choice you have left is to embrace the transitory (read transnatiknal) state of in-between.”
― Ed Morales, Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America

“...[W]e are in a new age in America today. It is an age in which the nuances of brown, yellow, and red are as important, if not more so, than black and white.”
― Ed morales, Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America

“All that mattered was for investors to be able to recoup investments that were largely driven by the knowledge that Puerto Rico’s bonds were triple-tax exempt and that it had no bankruptcy protection.”
― Ed Morales, Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico

“To paraphrase a Latino saying (which is possibly ultimately from the Arabic traditiom), MI rasa is supposed raza." So Living in Spanglish is not a racial Istanbul text.”
― Ed Morales, Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America

“In Living in Spanglish I posit the coming of existence of this forwars-looking race that obliterates all races, stripping away Vasaconelos's petty resentment of Anglo culture and patronizing Euro-centrist, and acknowledge a cultural-economic inevitability that is hemispheric in nature.
Note: Jose Vasaconelos wrote 1925 essay "La Raza cosmica" [The Cosmic Race] asserting, "Por mi raza hablara mi espiritu [The Spirit will speak through my race.”
― Ed Morales, Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America