Monotheistic unity is sustained by a radical separation of the sexes: indeed, this separation is its prerequisite. (Kristeva, About Chinese Women 19)

“I want to tell you something important,” Chen Pan whispered. “In your life there will be two paths, one easy and one difficult. Listen well: Always choose the difficult one.” (Cristina García, Monkey Hunting 193)

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For the destruction of the racist complex presuppose not only the revolt of his victims, but the transformation of the racists themselves and, consequently, the internal decomposition of the community created by racism. (Balibar 18)

This is especially clear in film: a linguistic model used without modification becomes a way of mocking the subjects so described, turning their ‘sympathetic’ qualities into submissive stupidity. (Monsiváis 90)

Estamos conversando en un ilustre dialecto del latín que se llama lengua castellana y ello es también un episodio de esa nostalgia, de ese comercio amoroso y a veces belicoso del Oriente y del Occidente, ya que América fue descubierta por el deseo de llegar a las Indias. (Borges 62)