- Prayer
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always fascinated by the disjunct between what's really happening on the ground and the propaganda machine that feeds America alarmist news about immigration.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It became really important to me if I was going to write 'Hummingbird's Daughter' to try to do honor to women.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're all funny. Humor unites us.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Support
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers write without support.
- Dying
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a little boy in Tijuana, it was wonderland. We left when I was probably four - I was dying of tuberculosis.
- Nov 07, 2020
During grade school, we moved to a white, working-class suburb in San Diego, and there were no Mexicans.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of our family was undocumented. My mom and dad were both super conservative. My dad had a green card; my mom was an Eisenhower Republican who did not approve of all the 'illegal people.'
- Expectations
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- Nov 07, 2020
Masculinity is kind of a toxic curse, isn't it? The expectations of it were hard on me.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of them had books attached.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came to believe the green fuse that drives spring and summer through the world is essentially a literary energy. That the world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing - and that thing was story.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020