Quotes by : Juan Felipe Herrera

First grade was - I spoke only Spanish, and second grade - probably a bit more English. And by the time....

Your friends, and your associates, and the people around you, and the environment that you live in, and....

All voices are important, and yet it seems that people of color have a lot to say, particularly if you....

I gave my voice to poetry.

My mother was a washerwoman - or a woman that cleaned houses in Texas... in Plano, Texas - who always....

I tell my workshop students, 'I want you to think of yourselves as artists. Then, when you're writing,....

Let's detox our cluttered academic brain. That's what the poet does. People call it daydreaming, detoxing....

San Diego shaped me a lot. The visual landscapes, the emotional panoramas, the teachers and mentors I....

The banner of the project is 'Casa de Colores.' Under that banner, I'm going to invite people to do a....

If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher.