Phrase by 'Luis Alberto Urrea'

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There is beauty in our roots. Sometimes we think our roots are shameful, and people tell you that you're no good or your ancestors are no good or that you come from a neighborhood of no hope and terrible crime. But it's about the beauty of those places, and I carry that with me.

Author: Luis Alberto Urrea - Mexican Poet
  Me , Good , Beauty , Hope


It's not like Mexicans have an illegal immigration organ in their body and at 14 kicks off a hormone and shows them how to come to the United States illegally. It's a question of desperation for a vast majority of them.

Author: Luis Alberto Urrea - Mexican Poet
  Like , Body , How , Immigration


It's almost easy for me to write about a magnificent tropical village with orchids and dragonflies. That's intoxicating, but the United States is magical, too. We just forget this.

Author: Luis Alberto Urrea - Mexican Poet
  Me , Forget , Easy , Village


I don't like being angry all the time; it's not good for me. I have to have serenity or else go to war.

Author: Luis Alberto Urrea - Mexican Poet
  Me , Good , War , Angry


When I was doing missionary work when I was younger, which started this obsession of mine with the literature of witness, I was a translator for a missionary group, and I spent years in a Tijuana dump. People were really thrown by the fact that the Mexican poor, many of them pureblood indigenous people, seemed happy.

Author: Luis Alberto Urrea - Mexican Poet
  People , Work , Happy , Group


I am actually a 'Seven Samurai' fan.

Author: Luis Alberto Urrea - Mexican Poet
  I Am , Fan , Seven , Samurai


I was torn between the Americanness my mom wanted for me and the Mexicanness my father wanted - they were wrestling for cultural influence over me.

Author: Luis Alberto Urrea - Mexican Poet
  Me , Mom , Father , Influence


It's the most absurd story. I grew up in the dirt streets of Tijuana, dying of all kinds of diseases - tuberculosis, fevers, all that - and it somehow turned into this charmed life. I don't know exactly how.

Author: Luis Alberto Urrea - Mexican Poet
  Life , Know , Story , Dying


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.

Author: Luis Alberto Urrea - Mexican Poet
  Light , Stand , Hide , Shadows


I was deeply infected with storytelling from the get go, and I truly love it.

Author: Luis Alberto Urrea - Mexican Poet
  Love , Go , Get , Storytelling


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