Between The Sun And Poverty There Was

According To Our Social Pyramid, All Men Who Feel Displaced Racially, Culturally, And/or Because Of Economic Hardships Will Turn On Those Whom They Feel They Can Order And Humiliate, Usually Women, Children, And Animals--just As They Have Been Ordered And Humiliated By Those Privileged Few Who Are In Power. However, This Definition Does Not Explain Why There Are Privileged Men Who Behave This Way Toward Women.

I've Spent My Whole Life In Chicago Being Asked Where Am I From, So That I Have A Sense Of Displacement That Also Is Very Psychologically Disorienting.

The Language In New Mexico Is Very Different. At First When You Hear The Speech Here, You Don't Really Know What To Do With It, But Then I Just Went With It, Because As A Writer As Well As A Translator I Do Believe That Translated Words Are Not Different Names For The Same Thing. They're Different Names For Different Things. I Tried To Stay As True As I Could, So I Used Ruben Cobos' Dictionary Of Southwestern Spanish, And When I Went Into Spanish I Never Assumed The Word I Would Use Would Be The Word A Nuevomexicano Would Use.

The Writers Who Have Been Serious About Recreating American Literature Have Always Been Far And Few Between. What We Do Have At The End Of The 20th Century That We Didn't Have At The Beginning, At That Time Of The Lost Generation Of Rich White Boys, Is A Mixture. We're Now Getting Gay Writers Of Color, Let's Say, And Women Of Color Being Published. This Is Unprecedented.

I Was Just, Like, Not At All The Office Type; I Was The Artist Type.