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

Luis Alberto Urrea

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

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

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

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

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

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" I love books with titles like, 'How Do You Spank a Porcupine?,' 'Arnie, the Darling Starling,' or 'The Bat in My Pocket.' "

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

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