Border-crossing Quote by Luis Alberto Urrea Download Open image “Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.” — Luis Alberto Urrea ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Border-crossing Borderlands-la-frontera Common Common people Hungry People Poverty
Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Poverty is a horrible, bedeviling force that invades and infects every aspect of our lives and communities - our homes, our pantries, our schools,… — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things. — Damian Marley Copy Share Image
Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“Aztlán (“The Place of the Reeds”) was the traditional home of the Aztecs, a possibly mythical motherland from which the tribe ventured forth on… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
With a name like Luis Alberto Urrea, it's political no matter what I do. — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
During grade school, we moved to a white, working-class suburb in San Diego, and there were no Mexicans. — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
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… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
“Braulio rises and extends his hands, making peace. " No hay pedo ," he says, the absurd lower-class slang for "There's no trouble here,"… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
“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… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
We want to ascribe a kind of tragic grimness to people, but people are funny. — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
I came to believe the green fuse that drives spring and summer through the world is essentially a literary energy. That the world was… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
“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… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Border crossing' is a recurrent theme in all aspects of my work -- editing, writing, and painting. I'm interested in the various ways artists… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“Angie was a border crosser, a wetback, a worker in the immigrant sweatshop they call this city. On days like this I understand her… — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
“It seems jolly on the page. But imagine poverty, violence, natural disasters, or political fear driving you away from everything you know. Imagine how… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
“Online, the distances just vanish, horizons widen, dismissing borders, setting no limits.” — Lana M. Rochel Copy Share Image