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Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in
Sandra Cisneros
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Sandra Cisneros
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 20
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Post 9/11, we've seen such disastrous policies on the border. I live two and a half hours away from the border, and I've seen changes for the communities there. I feel like it's an occupied zone. We're losing our rights, and both sides of the border are terrified. The Mexican population and the U.S. population are united in fear.
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The border between the dead and the living, if you're Mexican, doesn't exist. The dead are part of your life.
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I want to write an essay called Fear of Mexico, because I always feel like Mexico's this lover that never writes to me.
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The thoughts of letting go of everything I love overwhelms like a tsunami of sorrow.
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I think no matter what you do you can't please everybody. You have to ask yourself, Did I do what I set out to do?
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My Spanish is a daughter's Spanish. I write, but my Spanish really is very limited.
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I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.
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I hope I'm not just looked as a writer that is popular but as a writer of literary value.
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My Virgen de Guadalupe is not the mother of God. She is God. She is a face for a god without a face, an indigena for a god without ethnicity, a female deity for a god who is genderless, but I also understand that for her to approach me, for me to finally open the door and accept her, she had to be a woman like me.
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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.
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I usually meditate and I call my spirit allies - anyone in the spirit world that I've got connections with. Even in the spirit world you need connections!
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When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me.
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The ability to be present with every single person and engage was a great model for me of the work that a writer needs to do. Writers, living or dead, still guide me in many ways.
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