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" With a name like Luis Alberto Urrea, it's political no matter what I do. "
Luis Alberto Urrea
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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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" 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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" 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 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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" Masculinity is kind of a toxic curse, isn't it? The expectations of it were hard on me. "
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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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" I read most often in bed as part of my attempted sleep ritual. But I spend a lot of time reading on planes and in hotels, too. "
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Most
" Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing. "
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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! "
Luis Alberto Urrea
Writing
Better
Football
" 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. "
Luis Alberto Urrea
History
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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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" 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. "
Luis Alberto Urrea
Happy
Indigenous People
Work
" The situation was kind of complicated in that my mother didn't speak Spanish. My father spoke English, you know, as best he could. "
Luis Alberto Urrea
Father
Best
Know
" I was deeply infected with storytelling from the get go, and I truly love it. "
Luis Alberto Urrea
Get
Love
Storytelling
" We're all funny. Humor unites us. "
Luis Alberto Urrea
Unites
Humor
Funny
" The tone of 'Into the Beautiful North' is really the way I write. 'Hummingbird's Daughter' was the anomaly. It was a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon. "
Luis Alberto Urrea
Daughter
Way
Write
" 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. "
Luis Alberto Urrea
Now
Think
Will
" Writing went from being a calling to being a job. Business ruined things. It became like making sausages in a sausage factory. "
Luis Alberto Urrea
Things
Job
Writing
" 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. "
Luis Alberto Urrea
Place
Energy
Green
" I love books with titles like, 'How Do You Spank a Porcupine?,' 'Arnie, the Darling Starling,' or 'The Bat in My Pocket.' "
Luis Alberto Urrea
Titles
Like
Books
" I am addicted to poetry, but the truth is I cannot pass up a good hard-boiled mystery. "
Luis Alberto Urrea
Truth Is
Good
I Am
" 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. "
Luis Alberto Urrea
Question
Immigration
Body
" 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. "
Luis Alberto Urrea
Back
Mine
Great
" We want to ascribe a kind of tragic grimness to people, but people are funny. "
Luis Alberto Urrea
Want
Tragic
People
" I'm always fascinated by the disjunct between what's really happening on the ground and the propaganda machine that feeds America alarmist news about immigration. "
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Always
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" I'm interested in the eternal soul. That's what I write about. "
Luis Alberto Urrea
Soul
Interested
About
" 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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Soul
End
Earth
" Books are like chocolate. Can't eat just one. "
Luis Alberto Urrea
Just
Eat
Like
" It became really important to me if I was going to write 'Hummingbird's Daughter' to try to do honor to women. "
Luis Alberto Urrea
Me
Women
Important
" The stupidity of militarized fences between two worlds is a metaphor for all the things that divide us as human beings. "
Luis Alberto Urrea
Two
Us
Divide