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Luis Alberto Urrea
Mexican Poet
Born: Aug 20, 1955
Good Me People Write Writing You
Related authors: Emily Dickinson Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Khalil Gibran Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost Sophocles Walt Whitman
I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma. Luis Alberto Urrea
Grace Karma Political Writer Mistaken Versus Theme Theological
The stupidity of militarized fences between two worlds is a metaphor for all the things that divide us as human beings. Luis Alberto Urrea
Stupidity Worlds Divide Between Metaphor Fences Human Human Beings Us Beings Things Two
I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of them had books attached. Luis Alberto Urrea
God Religion History Made Poet Few Believe Every Our Books Poems Attached Had Songs Them
A lot of our family was undocumented. My mom and dad were both super conservative. My dad had a green card; my mom was an Eisenhower Republican who did not approve of all the 'illegal people.' Luis Alberto Urrea
Mom Family People Conservative Our Approve Super Both Had Were Lot Undocumented Green Green Card Did Eisenhower Republican Illegal Mom And Dad Who Dad Card
Spanish was my first language. Honestly, I learned to first speak in Spanish, not English, because my poor mother had to go to San Diego every day to work and then come back. And she would come home when I was an infant long after I was asleep. Luis Alberto Urrea
Work Day Home Every Day Speak Mother Language Long First Every Honestly Back Would Had Come She Learned Because Go Infant Diego After San San Diego Spanish Poor Then Asleep English
I had not seen lawns till fifth grade - big green lawns. Luis Alberto Urrea
Seen Big Had Till Green Grade Fifth
I often say poetry was my first love. Luis Alberto Urrea
Love First Say Poetry First Love Often
Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing. Luis Alberto Urrea
Soul Writing Fire Furnace Poetry Feed How
Way back when I was working at the dump, I saw that, even when living among the trash, that some people would decide to choose joy in their lives. Luis Alberto Urrea
People Joy Some People Living Back Saw Way Would Some Dump Decide Working Choose Trash Even Lives Among
The French-Cajun culture is similar to mine - they're Catholic, they play accordions, and they eat hot chiles. Luis Alberto Urrea
Culture Mine Eat Similar Hot Catholic Play
With a name like Luis Alberto Urrea, it's political no matter what I do. Luis Alberto Urrea
Political Matter Name Like
People think of me as a political writer, but I don't think of myself that way. Luis Alberto Urrea
Myself Me People Political Think Way Writer
I don't like to see people get kicked around. You have to stand up for them. Luis Alberto Urrea
You People Kicked See Like Around Up Get Them Stand Stand Up
We want to ascribe a kind of tragic grimness to people, but people are funny. Luis Alberto Urrea
Funny People Kind Tragic Want Ascribe
I saw 'The War Wagon' with John Wayne and Kirk Douglas, but it was dubbed into German. And it had Japanese subtitles and then this little strip with some Spanish words, and I've never forgotten that weird image. It was so magical and funky. Luis Alberto Urrea
War Words Saw Wayne Strip John Some Magical Kirk John Wayne Never Had Weird Wagon German Forgotten Subtitles Spanish Little Japanese Then Douglas Image Funky
I used to work with a relief group that took care of the people in the dump. We took them food and water and medicine and built homes and took them to church services, whatever was needed. Luis Alberto Urrea
Work Food People Water Care Church Whatever Group Medicine Took Relief Built Dump Them Used Homes Services Needed
A great Chicano forebear of mine in writing is Rolando Hinojosa-Smith. He was writing good border mysteries for Chicano readers back in the '80s and '90s. Luis Alberto Urrea
Good Great Writing Mysteries Back Mine Border He Readers
I was deeply infected with storytelling from the get go, and I truly love it. Luis Alberto Urrea
Love Go Truly Infected Get Storytelling Deeply
Writers write without support. Luis Alberto Urrea
Write Writers Support Without
When I was a little boy in Tijuana, it was wonderland. We left when I was probably four - I was dying of tuberculosis. Luis Alberto Urrea
Boy Left Tuberculosis Wonderland Dying Little Four
During grade school, we moved to a white, working-class suburb in San Diego, and there were no Mexicans. Luis Alberto Urrea
School White Were Mexicans Grade Grade School Diego Moved San San Diego Suburb Working-Class
I came to believe the green fuse that drives spring and summer through the world is essentially a literary energy. That the world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing - and that thing was story. Luis Alberto Urrea
Life World Spring Energy Believe Summer Fuse One Thing More Through Drives Came Than Green Essentially Literary Story Place Event Thing
I used to approach writing like a football game. If I went out there and aggressively saw more, I'd know more, and I'd capture more, and I'd write better. Hut, hut, hut: First down and haiku! Luis Alberto Urrea
Game Writing Better First Down Approach Saw Out Hut More Write Football Football Game Like Know Used Capture
I've been treated beautifully wherever I've gone, and I really think we all want to love each other. Luis Alberto Urrea
Love Gone Think Other Beautifully Been Want Wherever To Love Really Each Treated
It's not like Mexicans have an illegal immigration organ in their body and at 14 kicks off a hormone and shows them how to come to the United States illegally. It's a question of desperation for a vast majority of them. Luis Alberto Urrea
Desperation Immigration Organ Kicks States Vast Vast Majority Come Like Majority How Question Off Mexicans Them Body Illegal Illegal Immigration Shows United United States
I was torn between the Americanness my mom wanted for me and the Mexicanness my father wanted - they were wrestling for cultural influence over me. Luis Alberto Urrea
Mom Me Father Torn Wrestling Between Over Were Cultural Influence Wanted
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