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Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.

Sandra Cisneros

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Sandra Cisneros
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 20
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Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Teacher
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Chicago
Illinois
Mexico
Safety
Memory
Childhood
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I think I didn't know what I was creating, as much as I knew what I didn't want to do. And I didn't want my mother's life. She was an unhappy, frustrated artist who always dreamed of a life that was never going to be hers.
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One way to get very humble is to dedicate the work you're going to do to your community. And by community I mean that community you have a special vision for, that only you see, that no one else in a room sees. That special community in pain, that through a pain you've suffered, you're able to have that vision, that super-ray vision.
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