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

Luis Alberto Urrea

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" I'm always fascinated by the disjunct between what's really happening on the ground and the propaganda machine that feeds America alarmist news about immigration. "

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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 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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" 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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" Spanish was my first language. Honestly, I learned to first speak in Spanish, not English, because my poor mother had to go to San Diego every day to work and then come back. And she would come home when I was an infant long after I was asleep. "

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

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" Masculinity is kind of a toxic curse, isn't it? The expectations of it were hard on me. "

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" Books are like chocolate. Can't eat just one. "

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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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" To me, writing is prayer. I pray all the time. "

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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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" 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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" I don't like being angry all the time; it's not good for me. I have to have serenity or else go to war. "

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" A lot of our family was undocumented. My mom and dad were both super conservative. My dad had a green card; my mom was an Eisenhower Republican who did not approve of all the 'illegal people.' "

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

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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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" The concept of a literature of witness - of bearing witness - has embedded in it the need for action. One must not simply hide in the shadows and type; one must also stand in the light. "

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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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" I am addicted to poetry, but the truth is I cannot pass up a good hard-boiled mystery. "

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" When I was doing missionary work when I was younger, which started this obsession of mine with the literature of witness, I was a translator for a missionary group, and I spent years in a Tijuana dump. People were really thrown by the fact that the Mexican poor, many of them pureblood indigenous people, seemed happy. "

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" I came to believe the green fuse that drives spring and summer through the world is essentially a literary energy. That the world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing - and that thing was story. "

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" I read most often in bed as part of my attempted sleep ritual. But I spend a lot of time reading on planes and in hotels, too. "

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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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" I don't like to see people get kicked around. You have to stand up for them. "

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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 often say poetry was my first love. "

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

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

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" The stupidity of militarized fences between two worlds is a metaphor for all the things that divide us as human beings. "

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