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Papa always explained to me that there is no such thing as a kids’ game. That there are only games with which kids are learning the facts of life, but it’s the parents that are so tapados—so blind and constipated that they can’t see what these games are really all about.

— Victor Villaseñor Burro Genius: A Memoir (2004)

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And I realized: I've got to write the story about our people to anchor us to creation. And then no matter how much we get abused, we'll still feel special and we'll still feel good.

The written word is holy…When we write our stories, it helps us bring understanding.

We're trained to become parrots. We're trained to learn information and give it back at test time. But we're not taught to think. We're not taught how to access the genius.

Dog, cats, horses, all animals could do this at will much easier than us humans, Rosa and her husband Emilio, had explained to me, because animals were much closer to God than we humans were.

Burro Genius: A Memoir (2004)

My God, it was really coming true. The higher and higher I climbed in education, the more I was finding people I could talk to.

Crazy Loco Love: A Memoir (2008)

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