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text[0] = "My Own True Name
\"Hispanic perspectives need to be part of our literary heritage; I want to be part of the validation process.\"";
text[1] = "The Death of Jim Loney and \"Christmas Comes to Moccasin Flat\"
\"Maybe through literature people can get an understanding of how Indians got the way they are today, and how they differ from one another.\"";
text[2] = "Poemographies
\"I always felt that as a poet, in some sense, I was not just representing myself, but I was trying to speak for an experience shared by others who don't have the power of the word, who can't enter public discourse.\"";
text[3] = "Coyote Stories
\"Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission.\"";
text[4] = "Bless Me, Ultima
\"In my family and community, we grew up hearing cuentos, hearing the folk stories ... Those voices were telling me, 'You have to write.'\"";
text[5] = "The Fire Next Time, \"Sonny's Blues,\" \"The Rockpile\"
\"You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.\"";
text[6] = "...y no se lo trago la tierra (...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him)
\"I wanted to document the spiritual strength, the concept of justice so important for the American continents. Within ... migrants, I saw that strength.\"";
text[7] = "When I Was Puerto Rican
\"It was the migration from Puerto Rico to the United States that made me who I am.\"";
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Courtesy, University New Mexico Press";
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text2[0] = " \"Railroad Bill, A Conjure Man\"
\"There was a dearth of heroes when we were young people. I didn't read slave narratives ... We were taught about presidents and powerful men -- that whole thing was a Mount Rushmore-type education.\"";
text2[1] = "Erased Faces
\"I have written about political and social struggles that are very dear to me. The inspiration certainly is a God-given mystery, but I feel blessed and grateful for it.\"";
text2[2] = "The Way to Rainy Mountain
\"Among the stones of Rainy Mountain cemetery ... I could sense [the vitality in myself] but could not take possession of it until I translated it into language.\"";
text2[3] = "\"Aerogrammes\"
\"Poets of my generation were poet-activists. We didn't read in ivory towers. In order to get things done we had to resort to action.\"";
text2[4] = "Parable of the Sower
\"Writing novels about the future ... does encourage me to use our past and present behaviors as guides to the kind of world we seem to be creating.\"";
text2[5] = "Thousand Pieces of Gold
\"My writer's voice really comes from the oral storytelling of my childhood. Books were very hard to come by ... but everybody told stories. And I loved to listen.\"";
text2[6] = "\"On the Subway,\" \"Jones Comin' Down\"
\"Back [in the 1970s], I wanted to see everything burned ... Now, my whole thing is, we have to see how we can be the greatest part of us, which is the healing part.\"";
text2[7] = "Legends From Camp
\"To simply know the facts is not always satisfactory ... [So I've] taken the [internment] camp experience in my hands, stood in the sun, and held it up to the light.\"";
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