Xocoyotzin Herrera Quotes

I've worked throughout California as a poet: in colleges, universities, worker camps, migrant education offices, continuation high schools, juvenile halls, prisons, and gifted classrooms. ~ Juan Felipe Herrera

San Diego shaped me a lot. The visual landscapes, the emotional panoramas, the teachers and mentors I had from the third grade through San Diego High - it's all a big part of the poetry fountain that I continue to drink from. ~ Juan Felipe Herrera

As a boy, I felt ashamed of being Mexican. I'd say I was Hawaiian. ~ Juan Felipe Herrera

I tell my workshop students, 'I want you to think of yourselves as artists. Then, when you're writing, you're painting, you're crafting, you're making a design, you're sculpting, you're creating choreography, sound, a sound script.' ~ Juan Felipe Herrera

I know you're tough, Lola. I can still hurt you, trust me. I don't want to, but that's exactly what will happen if we take this anywhere. ~ Devon Herrera

Don't all women want to find Mr. Right and fall in love and live happily ever after?" ~ Devon Herrera

They want to live forever but still can't see that for that to work they need to change color and number. But it's already happening. ~ Yuri Herrera

Calm, cool, sexually confident Lo has officially left the building, and drooling, incoherent and sexually deprived Lola has taken her place. ~ Devon Herrera

When I was living in Los Angeles, I always booked a moisturizing milk-and-honey massage the day before flying to Spain. It was heaven - I never got dry plane skin or felt stiff from sitting in one position. ~ Carolina Herrera

There's a tendency for designers to embellish the size of their business. I never lie. ~ Carolina Herrera

We're broke. It's never a fun message to deliver. ~ Jaime Herrera Beutler

A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride. ~ Carolina Herrera

Masturbating in front of him while talking dirty brings me far more pleasure than I expected…" - Sofia Herrera (French Kiss, Unbearable Passion, #2) ~ Scarlett Avery

I rarely go into a shop on holiday, because fashion and design are what I'm involved in every day. I need another world. ~ Carolina Herrera

We are to blame for this destruction, we who don't speak your tongue and don't know how to keep quiet either. We who didn't come by boat, who dirty up your doorsteps with our dust, who break your barbed wire. We who came to take your jobs, who dream of wiping your shit, who long to work all hours. We who fill your shiny clean streets with the smell of food, who brought you violence you'd never known, who deliver your dope, who deserve to be chained by neck and feet. We who are happy to die for you, what else could we do? We, the ones who are waiting for who knows what. We, the dark, the short, the greasy, the shifty, the fat, the anemic. We the barbarians. ~ Yuri Herrera

You have to deal with the fashion egos. You know, there is a lot. It shouldn't be treated that seriously because fashion is only making dresses to make women look beautiful. We're not inventing anything new. ~ Carolina Herrera

Do you know what elegance is? It is not only what you're wearing. It is how you wear it. who you are inside. ~ Carolina Herrera

By middle school, I said to myself that it's time I begin to speak. I joined the choir, not because I wanted to. I forced myself. ~ Juan Felipe Herrera

I pull his hair a little harder while pushing his head harder against me. His fingers curl inside me, stroking my spot as his tongue caresses my clit with increased urgency." - Sofia Herrera (Never Say Never, Unbearable Passion, #1) ~ Scarlett Avery

When you're wearing something you feel comfortable in, you move better. That's why the most important accessory you can have is a full-length mirror. ~ Carolina Herrera

I believe that we have to lift the voice without fear and simply go forward, because in a lot of other occasions, we got tired, we have lowered the arms and simply let everything happen. ~ Alfonso Herrera

I am representing California, and all of California, definitely as a Mexicano, a Chicano, a Latino. ~ Juan Felipe Herrera

I have always loved trouser suits. It's something I absolutely believe in for women. ~ Carolina Herrera

The little black dress must be luxurious, rich, sensual, diaphanous, exotic, severe, lush, demure, demanding, frivolous, amusing, and it must linger in memory, but above all, it must be simple and little and black. ~ Carolina Herrera

Miracles occur when two people realize that there is no separation between them. In that moment, love flows freely and their true reality becomes known. Their perfectness is acknowledged and they are released from the illusion of fear, pain, and illness. ~ Elizabeth M. Herrera

I'm not sorry I feel bad for you Drake. I'm not cold, I'm not dead, and although it's been up for debate a few times, I still have a heart. ~ Devon Herrera

In that moment I wave goodbye to calm, cool, collected Lola Chase as she stands on the edge of the cliff the rest of me was just pushed off of. She smirks down at me as I fall, keening obnoxiously, and probably wearing the most ridiculous smile on my face. ~ Devon Herrera

The Immovable Object can also be construed as an idea whose
time has come. It's an idea of proportions that the human mind can
only grasp a small portion. Like the idea of freedom during the days
of revolution - only a handful understand what it means for the long
term, but it's the idea that cause people to take up arms, revolt
against the ruling class and fight for what they perceive to be
freedom. ~ Carla R. Herrera

Poetry, as odd as it is, and as hard to figure out as it is, many times, it's almost something that we're used to. It's kind of like a dream language that we had centuries ago, so that when we speak poetically or write a poem about what's going on, a real difficult issue that's facing our communities, people listen. ~ Juan Felipe Herrera

The positive thing is that today we can realize that a Mexican film it is positioned in the top 5 of the box office during more than one month and that Mexicans are taking into consideration that Mexican films can be enjoyed with the family, instead of going to see Transformers and that our films looks like something that are necessary to support. ~ Alfonso Herrera

The banner of the project is 'Casa de Colores.' Under that banner, I'm going to invite people to do a lot of good things. Perhaps working in groups, working on poetry. ~ Juan Felipe Herrera

A poem is a flexible thing, and a poem is a poem. ~ Juan Felipe Herrera

Sometimes it's like that. I go, 'You know what? I'm going to just change scales. I'm going to even change instruments. And I'm going to go into the chromatics of the Spanish language,' and I do. You know, the poem is totally different. It's like a lunar voice versus a day voice, a solar voice. ~ Juan Felipe Herrera

The only thing that I am trying to do is to find stories that I like, stories that are meaningful and that can connect and question, since I am not 18 years old anymore. ~ Alfonso Herrera

All voices are important, and yet it seems that people of color have a lot to say, particularly if you look through the poetry of young people - a lot of questions and a lot of concerns about immigration and security issues, you name it - big questions. ~ Juan Felipe Herrera

Better to scratch the wound than bandage it: those who lose a child shouldn't be consoled; parents die to make room for their kids, not the other way around. He wasn't being cruel, he just thought a gash that deep had to be respected, not swaddled over with cuddles. ~ Yuri Herrera

I like marketplaces. I like train stations; I like being in trains. I like airports. I like walking down the street with a pen in my hand, writing, writing, writing. ~ Juan Felipe Herrera

I will always carry you Princess. Not everyone can say they have held their entire Universe in their arms. ~ Devon Herrera

People confuse vulgar and naked with sexiness. You want the mystery! ~ Carolina Herrera

If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher. ~ Juan Felipe Herrera