Divide Quote by Luis Alberto Urrea

“The stupidity of militarized fences between two worlds is a metaphor for all the things that divide us as human beings.” quote by Luis Alberto Urrea — Download Open image

“The stupidity of militarized fences between two worlds is a metaphor for all the things that divide us as human beings.”

Luis Alberto Urrea

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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…

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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…

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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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The forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us.

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