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'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.

Sandra Cisneros

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Sandra Cisneros
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 20
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You know, we should have cards like the deaf have. Can't talk, I'm writing today.
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We have all this courage as writers, but then there's this fear.
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You know that you wouldn't take a baby on a plane without diapers, so when you leave your house, take care of you, like you would a baby. Don't leave your house without packing some healthy things.
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The truth has a strange way of following you, of coming up to you and making you listen to what it has to say.
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Every book takes you to the terror, that terrible place of possible failure.
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I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write.
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There's no perfect place, there's no wonderful utopia.
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Marshall Rosenberg talks about how we can create peace in the communities we work with. He's been traveling to warring nations to create peace within those countries.
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I realize that when I moved out of my father’s house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.
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True love in Mexico isn't between lovers it's between a parent and a child. Mexico is a very intense culture of sons adoring their mothers, and this is why I claim that Mexican culture is matriarchal. Because the one constant, faithful, inviolable, holy love of loves - the love of your life - is not your wife or your lover it's your mother.
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I've been on television saying, ¡Vamos a la biblioteca!. That was great. Nobody had ever asked me.
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So how are you supposed to learn how to drive with this guy yapping at you? My brothers were the ones who got to practice. So when you have to get on the expressway, you're afraid. That's what I think. That's why I take back routes on two-lane highways.
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Now I feel life is really short and I have to take care of things.
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