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My grandmother and my mom and my aunt Aurelia, my grandmother Juanita, my mom Lucia - we lived on the outskirts of a barrio in Mexico City called Tepito, and Tepito for many, many decades was the largest barrio in Mexico and perhaps even Latin America.
— Juan Felipe Herrera
Tags: grandmother, america, mom, city

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Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English.
— Juan Felipe Herrera
Tags: things, like, sometimes, you
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
Tags: think, design, painting, you
I write while I'm walking, on little scraps of paper. If I have a melody going, I can feel it for days.
— Juan Felipe Herrera
Tags: paper, i-can, feel, walking
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
Tags: first, everyone, voice, i-am
Marvin Bell always looked very closely at how lines could break, how you could put over one line into the second line. How you could stop the line two or three times within the line: You could make it stop.
— Juan Felipe Herrera
Tags: three, always, stop, you
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