119 Quotes by Luis Alberto Urrea

They breathed. They felt their lungs fill the sky, and they let the dark clouds inside them flow out. Then they connected to the earth.

I am in the earth and the earth is in me

Life shifting, as life does

Gringos! They have copied us again

Is it a crime to want to be good? she cried

Our power comes from the earth

Spanish! His family didn't even like speaking Spanish to him. He tried, and they insisted on answering him in English. Though they knew perfectly well that he spoke Spanish as well as they did and better than their children did. Each side had something to prove, and none of them knew what it was.

Progress might be inevitable, but there was no reason they should knuckle under without a fight.

If only Mexico paid their workers a decent wage.