Quotes by : Juan Felipe Herrera

I remember looking at James Joyce's journals. It was just amazing - it looked like ants had written on....

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

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,....

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

Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action.

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

Poetry, as odd as it is, and as hard to figure out as it is, many times, it's almost something that we're....