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Checkout quotes by Luis Alberto Urrea on People

• ‟ Borders are liminal spaces. Anyone worthy of the title of 'writer' is a border writer. We all are border people.

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• ‟ 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.

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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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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I'm always trying to, using literature, subvert people's responses.

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