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People think of me as a political writer, but I don't think of myself that way. - Luis Alberto Urrea

The tone of 'Into the Beautiful North' is really the way I write. 'Hummingbird's Daughter' was the anomaly. It was a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon. - Luis Alberto Urrea

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

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

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

When I was doing missionary work when I was younger, which started this obsession of mine with the literature of witness, I was a translator for a missionary group, and I spent years in a Tijuana dump. People were really thrown by the fact that the Mexican poor, many of them pureblood indigenous people, seemed happy. - Luis Alberto Urrea

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When 'The Hummingbird's Daughter' came out, there was a certain backlash - 'Well, this isn't 'The Devil's Highway.'' That's just the way it goes. - Luis Alberto Urrea

Borders are liminal spaces. Anyone worthy of the title of 'writer' is a border writer. We all are border people. - Luis Alberto Urrea

I missed the Wilco phenom while busy obsessing over rock en Espanol. So imagine my surprise when I found myself at O'Hare getting on a plane with my Chi-town homeboy, Jeff Tweedy. I loved the guy right away and loved his family. How odd to know somebody before you listen to them. I don't know if that's bad or good. - Luis Alberto Urrea

I love books with titles like, 'How Do You Spank a Porcupine?,' 'Arnie, the Darling Starling,' or 'The Bat in My Pocket.' - Luis Alberto Urrea

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

I'm always fascinated by the disjunct between what's really happening on the ground and the propaganda machine that feeds America alarmist news about immigration. - Luis Alberto Urrea

Books are like chocolate. Can't eat just one. - Luis Alberto Urrea

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

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

The stupidity of militarized fences between two worlds is a metaphor for all the things that divide us as human beings. - Luis Alberto Urrea

My dad looked like Errol Flynn, and I think my mom thought she was moving into a hacienda, but they lived on a dirt street in Tijuana, a house jammed with relatives, nobody speaking English. She didn't know a word of Spanish. She grew up well and was appalled and humiliated, terrified of anyone ethnic. - Luis Alberto Urrea

I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma. - Luis Alberto Urrea

I don't like being angry all the time; it's not good for me. I have to have serenity or else go to war. - Luis Alberto Urrea

I often say poetry was my first love. - Luis Alberto Urrea

There is beauty in our roots. Sometimes we think our roots are shameful, and people tell you that you're no good or your ancestors are no good or that you come from a neighborhood of no hope and terrible crime. But it's about the beauty of those places, and I carry that with me. - Luis Alberto Urrea

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