Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes

The world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story.

Words are the only bread we can really share.

Laughter is a virus that infects you with humanity.

If you were born to be a nail, you had to be hammered.

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

Everybody knew that being dead could put you in a terrible mood.

Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.

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

Our power comes from the earth

I am in the earth and the earth is in me

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.

Life shifting, as life does

Gringos! They have copied us again