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I wanted to share my doubts and my culinary, amorous, and cosmic experiences. So I wrote 'Like Water for Chocolate,' which is merely the reflection of who I am as a woman, a wife, a mother, a daughter. Laura Esquivel

When Chipotle asked me to take part in the Cultivating Thought program both as an author and an essay contest judge, I was excited by the idea of sharing my story through this unique channel and helping young, inspiring writers do the same. Laura Esquivel

Me Judge Thought Young Channel Both Through Inspiring Take Writers Part Excited Sharing Idea Contest Cultivating Author Same Essay Story Asked Helping Unique Program

I cook. I walk. I go to the movies. I meditate. Laura Esquivel

Walk Go Movies Cook Meditate

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

We're all funny. Humor unites us. Luis Alberto Urrea

Funny Humor Us Unites

The concept of a literature of witness - of bearing witness - has embedded in it the need for action. One must not simply hide in the shadows and type; one must also stand in the light. Luis Alberto Urrea

Hide Light Witness Action Type Embedded Must Shadows Bearing Simply Concept Also Literature Stand Need

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

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

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

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