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. Luis Alberto Urrea Read Quote
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. Luis Alberto Urrea Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
During grade school, we moved to a white, working-class suburb in San Diego, and there were no Mexicans. Luis Alberto Urrea Read Quote
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.’ Luis Alberto Urrea Read Quote
Masculinity is kind of a toxic curse, isn’t it? The expectations of it were hard on me. Luis Alberto Urrea Read Quote
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. Luis Alberto Urrea Read Quote
