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I was reading Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks, and I'm still very, very deeply moved by Gwendolyn Brooks's life and her work.
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I'm just as unhappy about San Antonio as I was about Chicago. If you're unhappy about certain things, you're unhappy everywhere.
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I think of reading as like a medicine cabinet.
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Mexicans don't think of ghosts as haunting you.
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All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.
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My father always defined my gender to my brothers. He'd say, 'This is your sister; you must take care of her.'
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I want to write an essay called "Fear of Mexico," because I always feel like Mexico's this lover that never writes to me.
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You'll change. You'll see. Wait till you meet Mr. Right.
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The ego's blocking the light from coming.
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I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English.
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When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction."
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Why don't we have people like Thich Nhat Hanh or Marshall Rosenberg and Nelson Mandela solving violent situations in a peaceful way?
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If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.
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I'm from Chicago, so the Chicago working-class poets still mean a great deal to me.
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You can never have too much sky.
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Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.
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I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power.
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I wasn't aware that 'House on Mango Street' was so influenced by Spanish until after I finished.
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Even my mom. I have to tell her, "If you want a snack, don't go to bed with potato chips. Eat a handful of pistachios and a handful of dates."
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You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely.
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That's why it's important to be multilingual, because it teaches you so much about your own language.
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The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.
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I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.
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For a writer, for the solitude to write, you don't need a room of your own, you need a house.
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You don't want somebody who doesn't know his own heart, do you? You'll find someone who's brave enough to love you. Someday. One day. Not today.
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The thoughts of letting go of everything I love overwhelms like a tsunami of sorrow.
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One way to get very humble is to dedicate the work you're going to do to your community.
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Even if you don't believe in God, you have to believe in love.
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The truth has a strange way of following you, of coming up to you and making you listen to what it has to say.
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What's always a challenge for me is that my Spanish is not the level of my English. Nor do I read in Spanish the way I read in English.
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Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces.
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In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means waiting. It is like the number nine, a muddy color.
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Like all guests, after a fortnight, grief is best beyond the door.
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You know, you want to be outrageous when you're young, so all the young people say, "Oooh ... " Now my tactics are different.
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I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved - involved in acquisitions.
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To tell you the truth, I think it's about that we shouldn't get our driver's licenses till real late in life.
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Maybe all pain in the world requires poetry.
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You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are.
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Some people need flowers, some people need dandelions. It's medicine, it's what you need at that time in your life.
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There's all kinds of ways to wean yourself off of sugar - because it is like an addiction.
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I grew up with this kind of grocery store that caters to the poor. They serve you the worst food
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I wish somebody had told me love does not die, that we can continue to receive and give love after death.
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There was a time when I used to go to Mexico every year. But then Mexico changed a lot - between 1995 and 2005, Mexico changed a lot.
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You were given that pain and that vision because you have something to do with it.
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Sometimes hearing the stories is going to change people's lives much more than if they read it.
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We have all this courage as writers, but then there's this fear.
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I know there are a lot of women who are afraid of driving on highways.
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I do travel a lot, because I need oxygen, I need to go to places to meet people who aren't upset at me because I'm asking for peace.
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Even if we don't know if God exists, we can be certain love exists, because its power transcends death.
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I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman.
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When your writing is unselfconscious, when it comes from your heart, that's when it's powerful.
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To this day, on my cheat days from my diet, which are New Year's Eve and my birthday, I buy luxury foods that are very indicative of my class.
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I would drive on streets that were one-way and think, "Why are they all honking at me?"
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Those of us who are writers and have to perform to communities that aren't used to coming to book events, I would recommend taking some theater.
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Heartbreak makes us stronger; it's an opportunity for spiritual growth. How can you understand someone else's pain if you have not yourself suffered?
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When I'm starting to feel, "How many more people are there?" I go slower. I ask questions, and that person engaging with me gives me energy.
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I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.
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You know, we should have cards like the deaf have. "Can't talk, I'm writing today."
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Books are medicine and you have to take the right medicine that you need at that moment or that day or that time in your life.
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One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.
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My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.
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My idea of a meal, if I was hungry, was to open a bag of potato chips.
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Even though it's hard to believe, but people who know me really well know I'm shy. I have to go past that fear.
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I think there's some great stuff coming. I do feel that. I think we have reached our Harlem Renaissance.
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There's a lot of people that need these stories, and they can't come to my book, so I'm going to be the bookmobile and I'm going to come to them.
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I'm filled with a new joy mixed with old grief.
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That's what you need for your writing - to learn how to be present, learn how to be calm. So take that nap, do that meditation.
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My Spanish is a daughter's Spanish. I write, but my Spanish really is very limited.
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Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.
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In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I'd sleep for twelve hours and even when awake escape to the safe place in my mind.
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I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.
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The most powerful speaking you can do is the speaking that comes from your heart and your love.
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I don't really think our government at heart wants peace. So I urge you, write to Mrs. Laura Bush, because she reads.
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I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate and more patient than I really am.
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I feel that I can teach my listener about a new word they can use too.
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I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations ... English from Edwardian times.
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Generally if you're a daughter in a Mexican family, no one wants to tell you anything; they tell you the healthy lies about your family.
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Now I feel life is really short and I have to take care of things.
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How can art make a difference in the world?
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I was interested in cross-pollinating the two. I thought there was something lovely in the little vignette forms. I wanted to explore that.
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I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment.
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Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
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One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.
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I began writing as an experimental writer.
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I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate
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Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in
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When I was a child, I was very shy, and there's still a part of me that's very shy.
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I feel the fear touches on something deeper. A sense perhaps of, "My life is speeding past me and I can't get a handle on it."
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When I was writing Caramelo the last couple of years, a sixty-hour work week was normal. And now I'm lucky if I have eight hours.
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I was so happy when I went to Rome and I saw that the Romans eat them too, the squash blossoms. No wonder I like the Italians!
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I remember when they started publishing Latino fiction years ago. You had to be really good to get published. Now you don't have to be that good.
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The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to tell you the truth.
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The devil knows more from experience than from being the devil
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