Gary Soto Quotes

• I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.

  Gary Soto

  Writing, Firsts, Sentences

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• You can always spot bright people. They are reading a book.

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  Book, Reading, People

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• Because nothing should be wasted In a world where sparrows work hard To prove there is enough.

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  Hard Work, World, Sparrows

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• It appears these days I don't have much of a life because my nose is often stuck in a book. But I discovered that reading builds a life inside the mind.

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  Book, Reading, Mind

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• I drank that sentence and began to glow.

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  Drank, Sentences

  Gary Soto (2012). “Partly Cloudy: Poems of Love and Longing”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• going back and forth, back and forth, getting nowhere

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  Back And Forth

  Gary Soto (2006). “Buried Onions”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The black asphalt wouls shimmer with vapors I had a theory about those vapors...not released by the sun but by a huge onion buried under the city. This onion made us cry... I thought about the giant onion, that remarkable bulb of sadness.

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  Sadness, Cities, Black

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• Dirt rolls from his palm, Blades of grass Tumble from his hair.

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  Nature, Hair, Dirt

  Gary Soto (1992). “Neighborhood Odes”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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