Luis Alberto Urrea

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Luis Alberto Urrea

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Writing went from being a calling to being a job. Business ruined things. It became like making sausages in a sausage factory.

Luis Alberto Urrea
writing , being , calling
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Writers write without support.

Luis Alberto Urrea
writers , write , without
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With a name like Luis Alberto Urrea, it's political no matter what I do.

Luis Alberto Urrea
name , like , political
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When I was a little boy in Tijuana, it was wonderland. We left when I was probably four - I was dying of tuberculosis.

Luis Alberto Urrea
little , boy , left
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We're all funny. Humor unites us.

Luis Alberto Urrea
humor , unites
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We want to ascribe a kind of tragic grimness to people, but people are funny.

Luis Alberto Urrea
want , ascribe , kind
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To me, writing is prayer. I pray all the time.

Luis Alberto Urrea
writing , pray
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The stupidity of militarized fences between two worlds is a metaphor for all the things that divide us as human beings.

Luis Alberto Urrea
stupidity , fences , between
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The situation was kind of complicated in that my mother didn't speak Spanish. My father spoke English, you know, as best he could.

Luis Alberto Urrea
situation , kind , complicated
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The French-Cajun culture is similar to mine - they're Catholic, they play accordions, and they eat hot chiles.

Luis Alberto Urrea
culture , similar , mine
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Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing.

Luis Alberto Urrea
poetry , how , feed
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People think of me as a political writer, but I don't think of myself that way.

Luis Alberto Urrea
people , think , me
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Masculinity is kind of a toxic curse, isn't it? The expectations of it were hard on me.

Luis Alberto Urrea
masculinity , kind , toxic
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It became really important to me if I was going to write 'Hummingbird's Daughter' to try to do honor to women.

Luis Alberto Urrea
became , really , important
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In the end, I'm really interested in people and what we do with our short time here on earth. I'm interested in the human soul.

Luis Alberto Urrea
really , interested , people