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The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself. It's like being blind. You aren't less of a person, but you're missing out on wonderful things.

Sandra Cisneros

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Sandra Cisneros
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: December 20
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I can't go to Hindu countries where they respect rats and mice, and I can't go camping. I don't like to go into subways, because I always see them. Rats are like my naguales [kindred animal spirits]. They follow me.
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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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I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment.
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We changed it to emocionó, the way you say in Spanish, to emotion me [to be moved]. That, as opposed to haunt. We wanted the feeling of sadness and grief and obsession, so we used emocionó.
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Maybe all pain in the world requires poetry.
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There's a lot of people that need these stories, and they can't come to my book, so I'm going to be the bookmobile and I'm going to come to them.
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I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate
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The Mexico - United States border was always porous. People have been going and coming back since before the Spaniards arrived. Now we're seeing communities who have family members on the other side very frightened. I feel saddened for those families divided by violence. The whole border area is under siege.
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The ego's blocking the light from coming.
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We women shouldn't get our driver's licenses till real late in life.
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That's what you need for your writing - to learn how to be present, learn how to be calm. So take that nap, do that meditation.
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