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You're next, after the feather dancers. And you had to get their attention, because otherwise people would go, Oh, a poet. You really have to learn.

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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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I realize that when I moved out of my father’s house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.
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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 began writing as an experimental writer.
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Being on a highway, all that speed and aggression, is very terrifying to me.
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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 that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman.
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You meditate and then you can put on your pajamas, or you can imagine you're wearing your pajamas, and you talk about your piece of writing in the language you would use if you were wearing your pajamas and you were seated at a table with your very good friend. And you wouldn't have to get all dressed up or clean up the table.
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My Spanish is a daughter's Spanish. I write, but my Spanish really is very limited.
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Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction each thing helps the other.
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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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You know, we should have cards like the deaf have. Can't talk, I'm writing today.
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Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in
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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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