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Juan Felipe Herrera Quotes

American - Poet | December 27, 1948 -

I want to take everything I have in me, weave it, merge it with the beauty that is in the Library of Congress, all the resources, the guidance of the staff and departments, and launch it with the heart-shaped dreams of the people.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Beauty Dreams People Me Library

I write while I'm walking, on little scraps of paper. If I have a melody going, I can feel it for days.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Feel Walking I Can Write Days Going

Just like my parents immigrated from ranch to ranch picking crops, I have migrated from city to city.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Parents City Ranch Just Like Crops

If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Teacher I Can Poet Well One Thing

I'm very grateful to all the people of Fresno, to Philip Levine and all the poets before me, and all the farmworkers. I didn't get here by myself.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Myself Grateful People Me Here Get

I am representing California, and all of California, definitely as a Mexicano, a Chicano, a Latino.

Juan Felipe Herrera

I Am California Latino Am Definitely

In my writing, I want to address all communities, you know. I've spent many years talking about Chicano culture, Chicano history, and at the same time, I've also been in many communities and presented my work in many communities, in many classrooms, and that's where my vision is and my delight is and my heart is.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Work Heart Vision History Time You

My mother was a great storyteller and a great historian in her own way. She only made it to third grade. She came from Mexico City at the tail end of the Mexican Revolution and that kind of turmoil and chaos and frenzy and also excitement.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Mother Great City Chaos Revolution

My grandmother and my mom and my aunt Aurelia, my grandmother Juanita, my mom Lucia - we lived on the outskirts of a barrio in Mexico City called Tepito, and Tepito for many, many decades was the largest barrio in Mexico and perhaps even Latin America.

Juan Felipe Herrera

City Mom America Grandmother Mexico

My mother was a washerwoman - or a woman that cleaned houses in Texas... in Plano, Texas - who always loved poetry and always loved stories.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Mother Woman Poetry Texas Loved Who

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