Body Quote by Luis Alberto Urrea

“It's not like Mexicans have an illegal immigration organ in their body and at 14 kicks off a hormone and shows them how to come to the United States illegally. It's a question of desperation for a vast majority of them.” quote by Luis Alberto Urrea — Download Open image

“It's not like Mexicans have an illegal immigration organ in their body and at 14 kicks off a hormone and shows them how to come to the United States illegally. It's a question of desperation for a vast majority of them.”

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I'm interested in the eternal soul. That's what I write about.

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“Aztlán (“The Place of the Reeds”) was the traditional home of the Aztecs, a possibly mythical motherland from which the tribe ventured forth on a one-hundred-year walk. It was a land to the north of Mexico City. Chicanos recognize Aztlán as being in the American southwest, and it came to represent the stomping ground of “La Chicanada,” or the entirety…

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With a name like Luis Alberto Urrea, it's political no matter what I do.

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During grade school, we moved to a white, working-class suburb in San Diego, and there were no Mexicans.

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I've been told not to tour down in Mexico. I am too well-known now. The kidnappers may think that my publisher will pay a…

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“Braulio rises and extends his hands, making peace. " No hay pedo ," he says, the absurd lower-class slang for "There's no trouble here,"…

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“This is how Heaven works. They're practical. We are always looking for rays of light. For lightning bolts or burning bushes. But God is…

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We want to ascribe a kind of tragic grimness to people, but people are funny.

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I came to believe the green fuse that drives spring and summer through the world is essentially a literary energy. That the world was…

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Writers write without support.

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“He couldn't believe she was real. She was like some dream, some story old men told youngsters. She made a fool out of him with the slightest grin or pout. She slept in his bed, not beside him, but around him, her aromatic legs and arms wrapped around him, her mouth against his throat, her beautiful thundercloud hair over his…

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The world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story.

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