Juan Felipe Herrera Quotes

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

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

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

Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and pol...

I gave my voice to poetry.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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