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I've put up with too much, too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything less.

Sandra Cisneros

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Sandra Cisneros
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 20
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One way to get very humble is to dedicate the work you're going to do to your community.
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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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Maybe all pain in the world requires poetry.
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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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The ego's blocking the light from coming.
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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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I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.
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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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I know there are a lot of women who are afraid of driving on highways.
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Now I feel life is really short and I have to take care of things.
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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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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.
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What do we call our Harlem Renaissance? Maybe in the future, it won't be just Latino, maybe it'll be more multi-multi, because, you know, people are such fusions now, of so many different cultures.
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There's no perfect place, there's no wonderful utopia.
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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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What I've learned is, if I have to go out and speak, the best way to get people's attention is to tell them a story, tell them a story that came from my corazón.
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[Courage] always bigger than what you think you can handle, but you're never going to be given something you can't handle. So you say, Okay, when you tell me what it is that I'm supposed to do, please give me the courage to do it.
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The older you get, the more power you have with language as a writer, which means that you have to be extra responsible for what you say, whether it's in print or in front of a microphone, because those words can go out and kill or go out and plant seeds for peace.
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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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Each book gets harder, each book gets harder and harder. I always feel like crying when I have to write.
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