“they say of the poet and the madmn we all have a little”

“Yeah,we rate all right”

“It never stopped, this running. We were constant prey, and the hunters soon became big blurs: the police, the gangs, the junkies, the dudes on Gaarvey Boulevard who took our money, all smudged into one. Sometimes they were teachers who jumped on us Mexicans as if we were born with a hiduous stain. we were always afraid. Always Running.”

“my task is to make you hear,to make you feel ,and ,above all,to make you see,that is all,and it is everything”

“you choolos have great storys about climing fences”

“there are choices you have to make not just once, but everytime they come up.”

“cry, child, for those without tears have a grief which never ends.”