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Quotes from The Desert Remembers My Name: On Family and Writing — Kathleen Alcalá

born 1954 United States

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In a way, artists are messengers between worlds, bringing ideas and symbols from one to the other.

The Desert Remembers My Name: On Family and Writing (2007)

We each seek to retrace those steps that led us from where we once were, to where we are now. ("Found in Translation")

The Desert Remembers My Name: On Family and Writing (2007)

I want my writing to insinuate itself into the subconscious of the people of the Southwest, so that we might remember who we were and who we will be, since so little time is spent in the present.

The Desert Remembers My Name: On Family and Writing (2007)

We are not going to eradicate poverty by bombing people. ("Dear John: A Letter to a Friend Following 9/11")

The Desert Remembers My Name: On Family and Writing (2007)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kathleen Alcalá (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.