Your friends, and your associates, and the people around you, and the environment that you live in, and the speakers around you - the speakers around you - and the communicators around you, are the poetry makers.
If your mother tells you stories, she is a poetry maker.
If your father says stories, he is a poetry maker.
If your grandma tells you stories, she is a poetry maker.
And that’s who forms our poetics.

Juan Felipe Herrera

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The fact that I
am writing to you
in English
already falsifies what I
wanted to tell you.
My subject:
how to explain to you
that I don't belong to English
though I belong nowhere else,
if not here
in English.

Gustavo Perez Firmat

Tags: poetry latino

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Even the most political poem is an act of faith.

Martín Espada

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This is definitely / for the brothers / who ain't here.

Willie Perdomo

Tags: poetry latino nuyorican

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My African roots made me what I am today. They’re the reason I’m from the Dominican Republic. They’re the reason I exist at all. To these roots I owe everything.

Junot Díaz

Tags: africa black caribbean republic latino dominican afro

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The scent of him was subtle, beautifully fresh, and she couldn’t think clearly. No man had ever brought out these intense feelings in her. Chris Augustine was dangerous and she could get lost in his arms.

Suzan Battah

Tags: romance french contemporary-romance latino multicultural

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El Mero, Mero Paletero!

Paul Ramirez

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Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own.

Junot Díaz

Tags: dating race latino dominican white-girl

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The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becomes a preoccupation to folks around the country, including me.

Raquel Cepeda

Tags: identity america status-quo race racism race-relations latino identity-politics identity-crisis american-people american-society racial-tension latino-americans latina-americans hispanics

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The Latino community anchored me, but I didn't want it to isolate me from the full extent of what Princeton had to offer, including engagement with the larger community. Page 148

Sonia Sotomayor

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