4 Quotes by Cisneros

People who live on hills sleep so close to the stars they forget those of us who live too much on earth. They don’t look down except to be content to live on hills. One day I’ll own my own house but I will not forget who I am or where I came from.”- The House on Mango Street

A House of My OwnNot a flat. Not an apartment in back. Not a man's house. Not a daddy's. A house all my own. With my porch and my pillow, my pretty purple petunias. My books and my stories. My two shoes waiting beside the bed. Nobody to shake a stick at. Nobody's garbage to pick up after.Only a house quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem.

I have inherited her name but I don’t want to inherit her place by the window.”-The house on Mango Street

I have decided not to grow up tamed like the others who lay their necks on the threshold waiting for the ball and chain.”-The House on Mango Street