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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
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I have often said I come from a family of unreliable narrators. I tend to believe their struggles with racism, identity, nationality do dovetail with my motivation to write.
— Luis Alberto Urrea
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When I was a little boy in Tijuana, it was wonderland. We left when I was probably four - I was dying of tuberculosis.
— Luis Alberto Urrea
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I read most often in bed as part of my attempted sleep ritual. But I spend a lot of time reading on planes and in hotels, too.
— Luis Alberto Urrea
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I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma.
— Luis Alberto Urrea
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I'm always trying to, using literature, subvert people's responses.
— Luis Alberto Urrea
Tags: trying, literature, always, people
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