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" I often say poetry was my first love. "

Luis Alberto Urrea

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

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

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

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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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" 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. "

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

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" Writers write without support. "

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" I was torn between the Americanness my mom wanted for me and the Mexicanness my father wanted - they were wrestling for cultural influence over me. "

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

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

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" Way back when I was working at the dump, I saw that, even when living among the trash, that some people would decide to choose joy in their lives. "

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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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" I used to work with a relief group that took care of the people in the dump. We took them food and water and medicine and built homes and took them to church services, whatever was needed. "

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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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" 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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" 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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