What do these two authors think that This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color does?

Cherríe Moraga:

"We returned. We returned twenty years ago on the pages of this book and the streets of this country, veteranas of the Chicano, Black Power, Asian American and American Indian Movement. We returned veteranas of the anti-war/anti-imperialist movement against the US involvement in Vietnam. We were among the hundreds of thousands that forced a US president out of office and we went on to declare our rights as feminists, lesbians, and renegades of some of the most radical of social change movements of the period" (Moraga xvi).

"Is there any better way to describe our shared resistance mission as writers and activistas residing inside the numbing disgrace of this occupied América? We must insist on what we remember to be true. History precludes false loyalties tot he conqueror nation-state and prescribes renewed loyalty to the work of a reconstituted América. This most recent 'invasion' of the continental United States is nothing less than the product of a five-hundred year history of invasion, beginning with the first European colonizer-settlers and their wholesale theft of Native lands in the Américas. We don't forget" (Moraga xxiv).   - Leticia & Eric

"We recognized and acknowledged our internally colonized status as children of Native and African peoples ('the first and forced Americans,' as a friend once put it) and found political alliance in the great granddaughters of the disenfranchised Chinese railroad workers of the late 1800s and the daughter-survivors of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II" (Moraga xvi-xvii). - Leticia & Eric

"Noticeably absent in the Bridge of 1981, however, is a full portrait of the ever-expanding demographics of who we are as women of color in the United States today" (Moraga xvii). - Stephanie R. & Josh

"I cry because revolution was not realized in her lifetime, a woman who woke up every morning and practiced the preaching. Writing of the women in Bridge and beyond, she counsels: 'It takes more than the self-disclosure and the bold glimpse of each other's life documents to make the grand resolve to fearlessly work toward potent meshings" (Moraga xxx). - Laura & Gwen

"I'd say, work tirelessly when you do not grow tired at night. Do not waste your lives, your good health, strong bones and resilient muscles. Use them" (Moraga xxx). - Matt & Jessica

Gloria Anzaldúa:

"It continues to be a refuge linking us with each other, renewing old connections among women of color, and prompting alliances with the younger generations of women and with women and men of other tribes and continents" (Anzaldúa xxxiv). - Magen & Andrea

"Like many of the contributors to Bridge I rebelled, using writing to work through my frustrations and make sense of my experiences" (Anzaldúa xxxv). - Lindsy & Kristen

"Like knowledge, Bridge cannot be possessed by a single person or group. It's public; it's communal. To exclude is to close the bridge, invite separatism and hostilities. Instead we (Third World feminists) must invite other groups to join us and together bring about social change. We must align ourselves with and support those who challenge their own inherited or acquired privileges, examine their social positions, and take responsibility for their assumptions" (Anzaldúa xxxvi) - Krysta & Christine

"Liminality, the in-between space of nepantla, is the space most of us occupy. We do not inhabit un mundo but many, and we need to allow these other worlds and peoples to join in the feminist-of-color dialogue. We must be wary of assimilation but not fear cultural mestizaje" (Anzaldúa xxxvii).