"'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino……" — Sandra Cisneros
"'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves."
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57 Quotes by Sandra Cisneros
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I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for…
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I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took…
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Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
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I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are…
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I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I…
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Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.
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I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer…
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There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books…
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My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms,…
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And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine…
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The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is…
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You don't want somebody who doesn't know his own heart, do you? You'll find someone who's brave enough to love…
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