American - Author | December 20, 1954 -
Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.
Sandra Cisneros
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The older I get, the more I'm conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world. Tiny little things, but the world is made up of tiny matters, isn't it?
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I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.
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I spent my thirties living out of boxes and moving every six months to a year. It was my cloud period: I just wandered like a cloud for ten years, following the food supply. I was a hunter, gatherer, an academic migrant.
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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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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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Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces.
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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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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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There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count. We are still the illegal aliens of the literary world.
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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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I wasn't aware that 'House on Mango Street' was so influenced by Spanish until after I finished.
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