327 Quotes by Sandra Cisneros

The TSA tears through your bags at the airport and the NSA watches what books you buy and what you say over the telephone and online. It doesn't feel like anything is private anymore.

My Spanish is a daughter's Spanish. I write, but my Spanish really is very limited.

I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations... English from Edwardian times.

I didn't marry. I didn't have children. I followed the food supply for jobs. I kept writing at night. And that kept me moving. It kept my life disruptive. It broke up many relationships. Was it worth it? Yes.

I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved - involved in acquisitions.

Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.

I had a mother who walked to the library with me, and you can't walk to a lot of libraries in San Antonio because - guess what? - there are no sidewalks, except in the neighborhoods. And they're across big boulevards, and it's so hot, you can't even walk to the corner. So things like that affect how children can get to libraries. So there are a lot of things involved.

God made men by baking them in an oven, but he forgot about the first batch, and that's how Black people were born. And then he was so anxious about the next batch, he took them out of the oven too soon, so that's how White people were made. But the third batch he let cook until they were golden-golden-golden, and, honey, that's you and me.

One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.