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" Borders are liminal spaces. Anyone worthy of the title of 'writer' is a border writer. We all are border people. "

Luis Alberto Urrea

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" It's the most absurd story. I grew up in the dirt streets of Tijuana, dying of all kinds of diseases - tuberculosis, fevers, all that - and it somehow turned into this charmed life. I don't know exactly how. "

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" The situation was kind of complicated in that my mother didn't speak Spanish. My father spoke English, you know, as best he could. "

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" I am actually a 'Seven Samurai' fan. "

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" There is beauty in our roots. Sometimes we think our roots are shameful, and people tell you that you're no good or your ancestors are no good or that you come from a neighborhood of no hope and terrible crime. But it's about the beauty of those places, and I carry that with me. "

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" I've been treated beautifully wherever I've gone, and I really think we all want to love each other. "

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" Many of us writers tour like a literary Bachman Turner Overdrive. We ain't pretty, but we're on the road. Many of us wish we were rock stars anyway. For my part, I live in my iPod. The musicians there are my constant companions on the road. "

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" I was deeply infected with storytelling from the get go, and I truly love it. "

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" I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of them had books attached. "

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" A great Chicano forebear of mine in writing is Rolando Hinojosa-Smith. He was writing good border mysteries for Chicano readers back in the '80s and '90s. "

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" When I was a little boy in Tijuana, it was wonderland. We left when I was probably four - I was dying of tuberculosis. "

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" The French-Cajun culture is similar to mine - they're Catholic, they play accordions, and they eat hot chiles. "

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" In the end, I'm really interested in people and what we do with our short time here on earth. I'm interested in the human soul. "

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" I often say poetry was my first love. "

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" My dad looked like Errol Flynn, and I think my mom thought she was moving into a hacienda, but they lived on a dirt street in Tijuana, a house jammed with relatives, nobody speaking English. She didn't know a word of Spanish. She grew up well and was appalled and humiliated, terrified of anyone ethnic. "

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" I missed the Wilco phenom while busy obsessing over rock en Espanol. So imagine my surprise when I found myself at O'Hare getting on a plane with my Chi-town homeboy, Jeff Tweedy. I loved the guy right away and loved his family. How odd to know somebody before you listen to them. I don't know if that's bad or good. "

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" During grade school, we moved to a white, working-class suburb in San Diego, and there were no Mexicans. "

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" Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing. "

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" I saw 'The War Wagon' with John Wayne and Kirk Douglas, but it was dubbed into German. And it had Japanese subtitles and then this little strip with some Spanish words, and I've never forgotten that weird image. It was so magical and funky. "

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" Writing went from being a calling to being a job. Business ruined things. It became like making sausages in a sausage factory. "

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" The tone of 'Into the Beautiful North' is really the way I write. 'Hummingbird's Daughter' was the anomaly. It was a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon. "

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" It's almost easy for me to write about a magnificent tropical village with orchids and dragonflies. That's intoxicating, but the United States is magical, too. We just forget this. "

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" I had not seen lawns till fifth grade - big green lawns. "

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" People think of me as a political writer, but I don't think of myself that way. "

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" When 'The Hummingbird's Daughter' came out, there was a certain backlash - 'Well, this isn't 'The Devil's Highway.'' That's just the way it goes. "

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" It became really important to me if I was going to write 'Hummingbird's Daughter' to try to do honor to women. "

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" We're all funny. Humor unites us. "

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" I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma. "

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