Sandra Cisneros Quotes - Page 2

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• You can never have too much sky . You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe when you are sad. Here there is too much sadness and not enough sky. Butterflies too are few and so are flowers and most things that are beautiful. Still, we take what we can get and make the best of it.

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  Beautiful, Flower, Fall

  FaceBook post by Sandra Cisneros from Jun 25, 2010

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• The border between the dead and the living, if you're Mexican, doesn't exist. The dead are part of your life.

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  Mexican, Borders, Ifs

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Heartbreak makes us stronger; it's an opportunity for spiritual growth. How can you understand someone else's pain if you have not yourself suffered?

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  Spiritual, Pain, Opportunity

  "The Rumpus Interview With Sandra Cisneros". Interview with Olivia, therumpus.net. January 13, 2016.

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• I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

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  Mother, Art, Writing

  FaceBook post by Sandra Cisneros from Oct 15, 2011

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• I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.

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  Mean, Humanity, Trying

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• Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

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  Revenge, Compassion, Thinking

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• True love in Mexico isn't between lovers; it's between a parent and a child. Mexico is a very intense culture of sons adoring their mothers, and this is why I claim that Mexican culture is matriarchal. Because the one constant, faithful, inviolable, holy love of loves - the love of your life - is not your wife or your lover; it's your mother.

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  Mother, Children, Son

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• Maybe all pain in the world requires poetry.

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  Pain, World

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• The ego's blocking the light from coming.

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  Block, Light, Ego

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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• I think no matter what you do you can't please everybody. You have to ask yourself, "Did I do what I set out to do?"

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  Thinking, Matter, Please

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• One of the things Thich Nhat Hanh taught me: he says, "When you're in a hurry, go slower." That works every time, unless you're trying to catch a plane.

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  Trying, Taught, Planes

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• Write about what makes you different.

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  Inspiration, Writing, Different

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• The older I get, the more I'm conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world. Tiny little things, but the world is made up of tiny matters, isn't it?

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  World, Littles, Matter

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• I do travel a lot, because I need oxygen, I need to go to places to meet people who aren't upset at me because I'm asking for peace.

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  Oxygen, People, Upset

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.

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  Bullying, Children, Bumps

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• I hope I'm not just looked as a writer that is popular but as a writer of literary value.

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  Values

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• The older you get, the more power you have with language as a writer, which means that you have to be extra responsible for what you say, whether it's in print or in front of a microphone, because those words can go out and kill or go out and plant seeds for peace.

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  Mean, Language, Plant

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• Well, when you're an immigrant writer, or an immigrant, you're not always welcome to this country unless you're the right immigrant. If you have a Mexican accent, people look at you like, you know, where do you come from and why don't you go back to where you came from? So, even though I was born in the United States, I never felt at home in the United States. I never felt at home until I moved to the Southwest, where, you know, there's a mix of my culture with the U.S. culture, and that was why I lived in Texas for 25 years.

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  Country, Home, Texas

  "Sandra Cisneros looks back as a writer in search of home". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2015.

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• When I was at home, I wasn't shy. I was the clown at home, because I was loved. It was in the outside world that I was judged and I wasn't loved. That was very clear to me, that I wasn't loved. So I became very quiet. You know, those little girls you see in those pictures that look like they want to hunch, I was trying to disappear into my shoulder blades. The quietest person in the classroom, that was me. But that wasn't me at home.

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  Girl, Home, Trying

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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• When I was a child, I was very shy, and there's still a part of me that's very shy.

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  Children, Shy, Stills

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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• Heartbreak allows us to also experience joy and love but you have to walk through heartbreak to even know what joy is. Heartbreak is a constant and it is even necessary. It allows us the opportunity of introspection and exploration. Those processes are what is necessary to write and engage in the arts.

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  Art, Writing, Opportunity

  "The Rumpus Interview With Sandra Cisneros". Interview with Olivia, therumpus.net. January 13, 2016.

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• All of my works are performance pieces, as is true for many writers of color, writers who have indigenous roots - because our basis is spoken word.

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  Color, Roots, Pieces

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Before you speak, get very quiet, do the meditation, say, "Use me as a channel for what needs to get said to this community. This community needs to hear something very important that I'm the only person in the room who can say it. Please help open me so that I'm not frightened and speak through me. Let me be that channel so that I can help heal." You make yourself so humble that you really are like a flute and that music that comes out comes from el corazón. All the people you're connected to from that light that we call love.

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  Humble, Light, People

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. September 28, 2006.

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• The only reason we write - well, the only reason why I write; maybe I shouldn't generalize - is so that I can find out something about myself. Writers have this narcissistic obsession about how we got to be who we are. I have to understand my ancestors - my father, his mother and her mother - to understand who I am. It all leads back to the narcissistic pleasure of discovering yourself.

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  Mother, Father, Writing

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• The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to tell you the truth.

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  Stories, Want

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