Luis Alberto Urrea : (3)

" When I was doing missionary work when I was younger, which started this obsession of mine with the literature of witness, I was a translator for a missionary group, and I spent years in a Tijuana dump. People were really thrown by the fact that the Mexican poor, many of them pureblood indigenous people, seemed happy. " - Luis Alberto Urrea

" During grade school, we moved to a white, working-class suburb in San Diego, and there were no Mexicans. " - Luis Alberto Urrea

" I am actually a ‘Seven Samurai’ fan. " - Luis Alberto Urrea