Julia Alvarez Quotes

As A Young Writer, I Was On Guard Against The Latina In Me, The Spanish In Me Because As Far As I Could See The Models That Were Presented To Me Did Not Include My World. In Fact, 'I Was Told By One Teacher In College That One Could Only Write Poetry In The Language In Which One First Said Mother. That Left Me Out Of American Literature, For Sure.

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