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

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I don't like to see people get kicked around. You have to stand up for them.

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We want to ascribe a kind of tragic grimness to people, but people are funny.

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'The Hummingbird's Daughter' took 20 years to write.

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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.

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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.

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I've been treated beautifully wherever I've gone, and I really think we all want to love each other.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: Mexican

Type: Poet

Born: August 20th, 1955

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