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Poetry, as odd as it is, and as hard to figure out as it is, many times, it's almost something that we're used to. It's kind of like a dream language that we had centuries ago, so that when we speak poetically or write a poem about what's going on, a real difficult issue that's facing our communities, people listen. - Juan Felipe Herrera
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Migrants all over the world are pushed and pulled across borders by hunger, terror and climate change. It happened to my own family. - Juan Felipe Herrera
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Let's detox our cluttered academic brain. That's what the poet does. People call it daydreaming, detoxing our minds and taking care of that clutter. It's being able to let in call letters from the poetry universe. - Juan Felipe Herrera
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I'm a political poet - let us say a 'human' poet, a poet that's concerned with the plight of people who suffer. If words can be of assistance, then that's what I'm going to use. - Juan Felipe Herrera
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Do not wait for a poem; a poem is too fast for you. Do not wait for the poem; run with the poem and then write the poem. - Juan Felipe Herrera
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I tell my workshop students, 'I want you to think of yourselves as artists. Then, when you're writing, you're painting, you're crafting, you're making a design, you're sculpting, you're creating choreography, sound, a sound script.' - Juan Felipe Herrera
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Sometimes I have a very fleeting emotional dance with a fleeting phrase, like 'half-Mexican.' - Juan Felipe Herrera
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I want to take everything I have in me, weave it, merge it with the beauty that is in the Library of Congress, all the resources, the guidance of the staff and departments, and launch it with the heart-shaped dreams of the people. - Juan Felipe Herrera
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I've worked throughout California as a poet: in colleges, universities, worker camps, migrant education offices, continuation high schools, juvenile halls, prisons, and gifted classrooms. - Juan Felipe Herrera
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I am representing California, and all of California, definitely as a Mexicano, a Chicano, a Latino. - Juan Felipe Herrera
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Yes, I am the first Latino poet laureate in the United States. But I'm also here for everyone and from everyone. My voice is made by everyone's voices. - Juan Felipe Herrera
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The more we engage in society, the more firsts we have, then there will be a moment when we have no more firsts. Or maybe there will always be new firsts. - Juan Felipe Herrera
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A pen is different from the pad, the key, moving your fingers across a screen. I like both. I like to work on sketchbooks, big old white sketch paper. I like how that feels, and I like to put different media on it. Then there's the phone, smartphone, iPad: It's the new page, and it's not the same page anymore. - Juan Felipe Herrera
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Perhaps, like the way these leaves spread out and the way they curl in many directions and how they have many features, I think that's how my road has been. - Juan Felipe Herrera
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As a boy, I felt ashamed of being Mexican. I'd say I was Hawaiian. - Juan Felipe Herrera
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I want our young Latinos and Latinas to write their hearts out and express their hearts out and let us all listen to each other. - Juan Felipe Herrera
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Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives. - Juan Felipe Herrera
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Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action. - Juan Felipe Herrera
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Diversity really means becoming complete as human beings - all of us. We learn from each other. If you're missing on that stage, we learn less. We all need to be on that stage. - Juan Felipe Herrera
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