In Gloria Anzaldua "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" she begins writing with a memory from childhood and the dentist. The Dentist complaining about the movement of her tongue. From this memory she is to tell about how it is the this same wild tongue that would have her in trouble in school. However she doesn't just recognize as a Spanish speaker, but rather as a Chicano speaker. Neither English or Spanish and from not being recognized by either of these languages Chicano was born. However it the paper is more focused on not just being a Chicano, but rather a Chicano woman. The idea that the women where speaking Chicano is so unclear that just by speaking they can be considered not Spanish enough or not know enough English. You must be recognized as Spanish, but be well versed in English. However to English speakers it could be offensive to speak English as a second language. It is from this conflict Gloria speaks about the conflict of being Chicano and speaking several of the versions be it Spanglish Tex-Mex or others. She takes in that her language is her as much as she speaks it and that to say that Chicano is anything less is to say that she is less. However it is rising from this inner conflict that she realizes she is strong and ends to say that "But more than we count the blows, we count the days the weeks the years the centuries the eons until the white laws and commerce ans customs will rot in the deserts they've created, lie bleached" She writes about how as a people they will endure until white law over language is over and her people have endured and will continue.