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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. "

Luis Alberto Urrea

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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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" 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 am actually a 'Seven Samurai' fan. "

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

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

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

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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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