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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. "

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

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

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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 am actually a 'Seven Samurai' fan. "

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

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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 often say poetry was my first love. "

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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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" 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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" I've been treated beautifully wherever I've gone, and I really think we all want to love each other. "

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

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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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" A great Chicano forebear of mine in writing is Rolando Hinojosa-Smith. He was writing good border mysteries for Chicano readers back in the '80s and '90s. "

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

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

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

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