“Masculinity is kind of a toxic curse, isn't it? The expectations of it...” — Luis Alberto Urrea Quote

“Masculinity is kind of a toxic curse, isn't it? The expectations of it were hard on me.”

“I don't like to see people get kicked around. You have to stand up for them.”

“Spanish was my first language. Honestly, I learned to first speak in Spanish, not English, because my poor mother had to go to San Diego every day to work and then come back. And she would come home when I was an infant long after I was asleep.”

“My moral obligation is to God. I won't curse in God's name.”

“The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.”

“I don't curse in front of my daughter. Well, sometimes.”