Mexican - Poet | August 20, 1955 -
Books are like chocolate. Can't eat just one.
Luis Alberto Urrea
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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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With a name like Luis Alberto Urrea, it's political no matter what I do.
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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 don't like to see people get kicked around. You have to stand up for them.
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We want to ascribe a kind of tragic grimness to people, but people are funny.
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'The Hummingbird's Daughter' took 20 years to write.
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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 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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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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I've been treated beautifully wherever I've gone, and I really think we all want to love each other.
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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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