As a child I would go looking for my face in my coloring books, in
my storybooks but I never found my round, chicana face, my long dark
hair.
So I would go to that blank page in the back or the front of these books
and draw my own big face right in where it belonged.
That's what I tell the kids when I go into the schools. Those empty
spots are actually there so that we can draw ourselves in. We belong
everywhere.
Our face is important. It is a mark of who we are and where we come
from.
