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Sandra Cisneros Quotes

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.

Sandra Cisneros

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: December 20, 1954

Topics

Power Woman I Am Writing Latina Am

When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.

Determination Play Want Years Off

Our humanitarian aid system is sick and needs to be fixed. It needs to get a reality check and get back humanity.

Sick Reality Humanity Back System

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

Beauty Spring Grace Face Summer Nor

It's funny: over time, if you're fortunate, you build a nice career, and you have these interesting moments, and I would not, looking back, trade any of them - 'Red Tails,' '12 Years a Slave' and 'Undercover Brother.'

Funny Time Red Brother Looking Back

For those of us who cry out for gun control, our fears cannot be eliminated as long as the country remains an armed camp in which the most troubled among us can find ways to appropriate one of the easily available weapons in all our communities.

Control Gun Long Find Gun Control

I love 'Jungle Book' and all the classics growing up, but what I learned about this is that these Disney films are basically classic fables that have been told for thousands of years.

Roger Ross Williams

Love Growing Up Book Jungle Growing

I dislike arrogant men and diva behavior in either gender.

Men Behavior Gender Diva Dislike

You always want what you can't have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born, I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.

Culture Day You Dream White Born

I was such a tomboy. I had absolutely no bosom, and I wore my hair really short - shaved, like a boy.

Hair Short Boy Tomboy Absolutely

I think with challenge comes a little more fun.

Jason Alexander

Challenge Fun Think More Little

Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Thankful Moment Day Peace Tomorrow

If the bus driver is black, I thank him... when I get off at my spot, whereas I would never think of doing this if the driver were white.

Black Think Doing White Never Bus

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