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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. "

Luis Alberto Urrea

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

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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 want to ascribe a kind of tragic grimness to people, but people are funny. "

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

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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'm interested in the eternal soul. That's what I write about. "

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" With a name like Luis Alberto Urrea, it's political no matter what I do. "

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

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" Writers write without support. "

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" I often say poetry was my first love. "

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" It's not like Mexicans have an illegal immigration organ in their body and at 14 kicks off a hormone and shows them how to come to the United States illegally. It's a question of desperation for a vast majority of them. "

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

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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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" 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 used to approach writing like a football game. If I went out there and aggressively saw more, I'd know more, and I'd capture more, and I'd write better. Hut, hut, hut: First down and haiku! "

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" I'm always trying to, using literature, subvert people's responses. "

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" I've been told not to tour down in Mexico. I am too well-known now. The kidnappers may think that my publisher will pay a ransom. "

Luis Alberto Urrea

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

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