Sandra Cisneros Quotes
When I'm starting to feel, "How many more people are there?" I go slower. I ask questions, and that person engaging with me gives me energy.
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
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I couldn't bloody believe a prime-time TV show would have an Iraqi ex-Republican Guard torturer as a main character.
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When I'm starting to feel, "How many more people are there?" I go slower. I ask questions, and that person engaging with me gives me energy.
