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

Luis Alberto Urrea

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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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" 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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" 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'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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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