Community Quotes by Sandra Cisneros

Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.

— Sandra Cisneros

One way to get very humble is to dedicate the work you're going to do to your community.

— Sandra Cisneros

I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire…

— Sandra Cisneros

Marshall Rosenberg talks about how we can create peace in the communities we work with. He's been traveling to warring nations to…

— Sandra Cisneros

I don't close myself to the possibility of someplace outside the United States, but it would have to be someplace with an…

— Sandra Cisneros

I think that we need to measure how we give dollars to libraries by need. And the communities that are poor, in…

— Sandra Cisneros

It's what's available to the poor communities. They do buy healthy stuff, you know, but the lettuce is usually iceberg lettuce and…

— Sandra Cisneros

I'm learning a lot by reading teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron. They teach me because I feel like I have…

— Sandra Cisneros

Those of us who are writers and have to perform to communities that aren't used to coming to book events, I would…

— Sandra Cisneros

The Mexico - United States border was always porous. People have been going and coming back since before the Spaniards arrived. Now…

— Sandra Cisneros

One way to get very humble is to dedicate the work you're going to do to your community. And by community I…

— Sandra Cisneros

[Thich Nhat Hanh] the one that revolutionized Buddhism. Instead of being monks just engaged in meditation, it was active Buddhism. You went…

— Sandra Cisneros

Post 9/11, we've seen such disastrous policies on the border. I live two and a half hours away from the border, and…

— Sandra Cisneros

I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and…

— Sandra Cisneros

Perhaps the community you mentioned might not come to the story. Sometimes you have to take the story to them, and perform…

— Sandra Cisneros

One of the things we learned from that panel is the way poor communities use a library is very different from wealthy…

— Sandra Cisneros

I realize that it's like spices in the kitchen. I need that turmeric. I'm sorry, but cinnamon isn't going to substitute .…

— Sandra Cisneros

Before you speak, get very quiet, do the meditation, say, "Use me as a channel for what needs to get said to…

— Sandra Cisneros

By community I mean that community you have a special vision for, that only you see, that no one else in a…

— Sandra Cisneros

I know the American Library Association has models for working with the poor. They do have that, and I think that we…

— Sandra Cisneros

There's a lot of things that haven't been communicated to our communities. I didn't know these things myself. I didn't know that…

— Sandra Cisneros