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I gave my voice to poetry.
— Juan Felipe Herrera
As a boy, I felt ashamed of being Mexican. I'd say I was Hawaiian.
— Juan Felipe Herrera
Sometimes I have a very fleeting emotional dance with a fleeting phrase, like 'half-Mexican.'
— Juan Felipe Herrera
I am representing California, and all of California, definitely as a Mexicano, a Chicano, a Latino.
— Juan Felipe Herrera
A poem is a flexible thing, and a poem is a poem.
— Juan Felipe Herrera
We went from crop to crop, field to field. And my father had that army truck, a 1940s army truck from Fort Bliss, El Paso.
— Juan Felipe Herrera
Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English.
— Juan Felipe 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
If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher.
— Juan Felipe Herrera
Do not wait for a poem; a poem is too fast for you. Do not wait for the poem; run with the poem and then write the poem.
— Juan Felipe Herrera
Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action.
— Juan Felipe Herrera
I'm very grateful to all the people of Fresno, to Philip Levine and all the poets before me, and all the farmworkers. I didn't get here by myself.
— Juan Felipe Herrera
I write while I'm walking, on little scraps of paper. If I have a melody going, I can feel it for days.
— Juan Felipe Herrera
Just like my parents immigrated from ranch to ranch picking crops, I have migrated from city to city.
— Juan Felipe Herrera
The goal for me is to be as expansive as possible, and the Library of Congress offers so many resources.
— Juan Felipe Herrera
I want our young Latinos and Latinas to write their hearts out and express their hearts out and let us all listen to each other.
— Juan Felipe Herrera
I know I'm representing the Library of Congress, all the people of the United States and, of course, the Latinos and Latinas as well.
— Juan Felipe Herrera
Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives.
— Juan Felipe Herrera
Migrants all over the world are pushed and pulled across borders by hunger, terror and climate change. It happened to my own family.
— Juan Felipe Herrera
My mother was a washerwoman - or a woman that cleaned houses in Texas ... in Plano, Texas - who always loved poetry and always loved stories.
— Juan Felipe Herrera