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There weren't any white people in this country who didn't know who Gladys Knight was. Or the Pips were, as far as that's concerned.
— Peabo Bryson
Everybody knew that being dead could put you in a terrible mood.
— Luis Alberto Urrea
Our power comes from the earth
— Luis Alberto Urrea
This company doesn't pay anybody. Only customers can do that. The company merely handles the money.
— Henry Ford
Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Who was to say that God did not use the coyote's teeth to eat His gifts?
— Luis Alberto Urrea
Roses denote grace.
— Luis Alberto Urrea
Is it a crime to want to be good? she cried
— Luis Alberto Urrea
If it was the Border Patrol's job to apprehend lawbreakers, it was equally their duty to save the lost and the dying.
— Luis Alberto Urrea
Listen carnales listen to the hymn of it, the lie of it, the prayer of it, the voices singing our names: listen it's our story, it's our song,
— Luis Alberto Urrea
It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.
— Blanche Lincoln
Gringos! They have copied us again
— Luis Alberto Urrea
The world looked to them like a great roll of butcher paper unfurled on a table.
— Luis Alberto Urrea
I am in the earth and the earth is in me
— Luis Alberto Urrea
What it means is that you have the power to change your brain. All you have to do is lace up your running shoes.
— John J. Ratey
Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.
— Luis Alberto Urrea
I first started to sing when I started to talk. As soon as I could form words and sounds together, I was singing.
— Leah LaBelle
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.
— Luis Alberto Urrea
The world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story.
— Luis Alberto Urrea
If you were born to be a nail, you had to be hammered.
— Luis Alberto Urrea
There are times when the best writing you can do is to go for a walk or drive, a long drive is ideal.
— Terry Pratchett
Life shifting, as life does
— Luis Alberto Urrea
On that long westward morning, all Mexicans still dreamed the same dream. They dreamed of being Mexican. There was no greater mystery.
— Luis Alberto Urrea
The sun will not rise or set without my notice, and thanks.
— Winslow Homer
Trust me. I'm going to make sure this healthcare bill is never, ever, ever implemented.
— John Boehner
Laughter is a virus that infects you with humanity.
— Luis Alberto Urrea
Human consciousness is too obscure a mystery to itself for us to script our own lives.
— Robert Jenson
Words are the only bread we can really share.
— Luis Alberto Urrea
Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.
— Luis Alberto Urrea
My friend,' he said, 'no one is more ired of religion than a priest.
— Luis Alberto Urrea
If only Mexico paid their workers a decent wage.
— Luis Alberto Urrea
Weddings have become more perilous than battles, it would seem.
— George R R Martin