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You know, we should have cards like the deaf have. Can't talk, I'm writing today.
Sandra Cisneros
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Sandra Cisneros
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 20
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Those of us who are writers and have to perform to communities that aren't used to coming to book events, I would recommend taking some theater.
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I learn through listening and watching other performers that are very good, like Denise Chávez, Dorothy Allison.
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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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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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Like all guests, after a fortnight, grief is best beyond the door.
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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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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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I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I don't believe this is truly freedom.
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Even if you're an agnostic or an atheist, you can create an altar, because an altar is simply paying homage to someone's life and celebrating what they did.
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The ego's blocking the light from coming.
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I don't just want to talk to the choir. I want to sit down and be respectful of the people who are most unlike me, to get them to hear me and think. It doesn't mean you're going to change them right there, but just so they can hear you and what you're saying.
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You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are.
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I never paid attention when people said, That's gotta be poetry. That's gotta be fiction, except when I was in a graduate program, and you had to claim your genre.
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As people who are women, who are Indigenous and live on Indigenous lands, we know, and this is something I understand the older I get, that they don't visit the same way the postman may visit but they do visit. They visit in ways that our modern society often disregards and considers immaterial or unreal.
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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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I began writing as an experimental writer.
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The thoughts of letting go of everything I love overwhelms like a tsunami of sorrow.
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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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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 have to say my favorite stories are ghost stories. I don't like to see these made-up monster films or scary films with ghosts. It doesn't do anything to me. But a real ghost story that someone tells me, that I like.
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