Victor Villaseñor - Mexican Quotes

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Suddenly I remembered Jeannie Windflow, who'd taught me how to kiss when we were kids. At the age of seventeen, she'd run off with a Mexican guy from Pozole Town who was nineteen years old, had a job, and was one of the handsomest guys I'd ever seen. He was a semi-professional boxer and real dark. She was a track star, a straight-A student, and real blonde.

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Mexican kids were now speaking quite a bit of English. Even Ramón. But he was a changed kid. There was a darkness in his eyes like a horse that had just been beaten one too many times.

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It was truly a good thing that I'd found writing as my outlet or I was sure I would have become a mass murderer, killing all those heartless, racist teachers who'd beat us Mexican kids down since kindergarten

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Look, said Jake, last night, after you went to bed, we told your dad how we'd come across you running away from home. You did? I said. Yes, we did. It was the honest thing to do, son. And you should've seen the hurt look on your dad's face, because, you see, Mexican kids don't run away from home. White kids, gringo kids, like me and Luke, we're the ones who run from home, but Mexicans, they ain't never do that.

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He knocked the chess set off his desk, screaming at me, You're not a stupid Mexican! You're just lazy! I'm one of the best chess players in all Carlsbad and you treat me with no respect! I was shocked. All my life I'd been called stupid because I was Mexican, not because I was lazy. This was really good.

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YOU'VE GOT RAGE. THEN YOU RETURN TO THE STATES WITH THAT RAGE! YOU DON'T RUN AWAY! You saw bad, terrible things happen to you and other Mexican kids in school, then YOU DON'T CHICKENSHIT OUT! No, you go back, and you do something with that rage that will MAKE A DIFFERENCE for all those kids! That's the beauty of the United States! Even the little guy can fight back!

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