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There's no perfect place, there's no wonderful utopia.
Sandra Cisneros
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Sandra Cisneros
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 20
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If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.
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My book would come out in one language, then it would come out in another language, then it would come out in One City, One Read, and I was always being called away from my desk.
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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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When you're in that state of grief, any little breeze, any hello, any confrontation, any grazing of someone meeting your eyes, might cause you suddenly to burst into grief. You could be looking at a jar of peanut butter in the supermarket, and then start crying.
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You know, if you've got nine people that you've got to get a treat for - because you do have sweet food, even if you're poor - you can't go out and buy a Sara Lee cake. You buy the big bag of cookies, those chocolate and vanilla ones with the icing. That has a lot of trans fat in it, but it goes a long way with a lot of people.
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I think diseases have no eyes. They pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just anyone.
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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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I don't close myself to the possibility of someplace outside the United States, but it would have to be someplace with an indigenous community, because that's where I feel at home.
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Perhaps the community you mentioned might not come to the story. Sometimes you have to take the story to them, and perform it, and that's another way that I get an alternate point of view that isn't the official version of history out to a community. I feel that's what I've been doing since Caramelo.
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My idea of a meal, if I was hungry, was to open a bag of potato chips.
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I'm from Chicago, so the Chicago working-class poets still mean a great deal to me.
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It's so good for your health to take those naps. I don't know why people brag that they sleep five hours. I'd be ashamed. I'm proud that I sleep nine hours.
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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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I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago.
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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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My mom was a frustrated woman, like so many unhappy women who didn't get the opportunities they wanted.
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Packing is important because a lot of times I have to go places where I have to be in four different climates in three weeks. For example, Bosnia, Ireland, Rome. Different parts of Italy. You have to pack and get it down to a science.
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The ideal for me is to mix it up. When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other fields, I like to have them all in the same workshop, and not worry about genre.
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There's all kinds of ways to wean yourself off of sugar - because it is like an addiction.
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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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