- Nov 07, 2020
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- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means waiting. It is like the number nine, a muddy color.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father never wanted me to be a writer. He didn't - he came to terms with it maybe two years before he died. He wanted me to be a weather girl because when I was growing up, there were very few Latinas on television, and in the early '70s when you first started seeing Latinas on TV, they would be the weather girls.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible to the person who works at Dunkin Donuts or who drives a bus, someone who comes home with their feet hurting like my father, someone who's busy and has too many children, like my mother.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked the books I read that said things like 'I shan't'. I would try to find a way to say in my life, to reply, 'I shan't do that, mother.' That was so far away from my barrio world.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations... English from Edwardian times.
- Finished
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't aware that 'House on Mango Street' was so influenced by Spanish until after I finished.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.
- Favorite
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that Mexican-American kids live in a global world. It's not even bi-, it's multi-. You know, for those of us who grew up with different countries on our block, different nationalities, you know, we moved into multiple worlds.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up listening to the Beatles and being an ardent Beatles fan when I was in third grade all the way to adulthood, and listening to all kinds of music that came to us either at the flea market or in our living rooms or on the 'Ed Sullivan' show - all these places we were influenced by.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father always defined my gender to my brothers. He'd say, 'This is your sister; you must take care of her.'
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020