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The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote.
I admit that for me love goes deeper than the struggle, or maybe what I mean is, love is the deeper struggle.
I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would run into a problem and have no one to talk to.
Reading and thoughtfulness and openness are the best way, I should think, to begin to address the richness that is in each of us.
A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.
Independence didn't have to be exile.
It doesn't make any sense. If the SIM are policemen, secret or not, shouldn't we trust them instead of being afraid of them?
Depression is always in the details.
Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.
When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family.
As a young writer, I was on guard against the Latina in me, the Spanish in me because as far as I could see the models that were presented to me did not include my world. In fact, 'I was told by one teacher in college that one could only write poetry in the language in which one first said Mother. That left me out of American literature, for sure.
Yolanda, nicknamed Yo in Spanish, misunderstood Joe in English, doubled and pronounced like the toy, Yoyo - or when forced to select from a rack of personalized keychains, Joey.
Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.
