I’d spoken with Milo in Spanish only enough to know that he wasn’t as comfortable with it as I was. There were plenty of Latinos who would consider Milo’s lack of fluency a personal insult....

You Don’t Have To Be A Crook To Be Successful!

You Can’t Be A Hero To The World, If Your Aren’t First A Hero In Your Home!

No, Papá, I’m not drunk. I’ve thought about this for a very long time. I think it’s the right thing for me, a way to follow God.

Never Let The Roosters Wake You!

Thank God For Writing, As Now I Can Work Until My Last Breath!

A group of ten prisoners from Dachau, I was with them, we hid in the forest to wait for the Americans. The Germans had already left everything behind. We had food but no weapons. For...

You Can’t Replace A Star with A Lightbulb

The Best Deal Is The One Where Everyone Walks Away Happy!

I held Angie Luna in that room for hours, and I remember the different times we made love like epochs in a civilization, each movement and every touch, apex upon abyss. In the luxury of...

I Don’t Waste My Time Doing Crosswords, As My Life Is The Only Puzzle I Care To Resolve!

A Decision That Can Change Your Life Forever, Can Happen In Just One Second.

It’s a great honor, m’ijo. We know that. I’m sure everyone in Ysleta is proud of you. But this is who you are,” she said, for a moment scanning the dark night air and the...

A Memory Is Better Than A Phony!

And there’s some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.

I hated seeing these spasmodic upside-down chicken heads stretching to puncture my flesh. I imagined once that they reached my groin and pecked out my penis and my huevos and kept pecking until they got...

You Can’t Change Your Life… Until You Change Your Heart, and You Can’t Change Your Heart… Until You Change Your Mind!

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...

Hapana! Murphy yupo! Ni mfanyabiashara maarufu huko Tanzania. Lakini ndiyo hivyo kama unavyosema … Haonekani!

But Anja. I hear Anja’s voice. Maybe I am insane. I hear her crying. I see her alone in the trees. I remember being alone and humiliated. I remember, too, the fat little boy hiding...

Failures Are The Cornerstones Of Success!

Even the most political poem is an act of faith.

Kolonia Santita imesambaa dunia nzima. Hapa Meksiko wana magenge rafiki zaidi ya mia moja yakiwemo makubwa kabisa katika Latino ya Matamolos na Baja California. Nikitekwa nyara na memba yoyote wa magenge hayo, kuna uwezekano mkubwa...

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...

Don’t Rush Up The Stairs, you Just Might Fall. Take it One Step At A Time!

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.

The fact that Iam writing to youin Englishalready falsifies what Iwanted to tell you.My subject:how to explain to youthat I don’t belong to Englishthough I belong nowhere else,if not herein English.

Not Even The Greatest Sculptor Can Mold A Masterpiece Out Of Shit!

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

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.

To Me, The Best Part Of Success, Is The Journey!

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

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.

It’s Easy To Feel Like A Big Fish, When Your Pond is Just A Puddle!