Mitsuye Yamada quotes:

We need to raise our voices a little more, even as they say to us, 'This is so uncharacteristic of you.' Invisibility is not a natural state for anyone.

If the majority culture know so little about us, it must be our problem, they seem to be telling us; the burden of teaching is on us.

We must remember that one of the most insidious ways of keeping women and minorities powerless is to let them only talk about harmless and inconsequential subjects...