Alejandro Morales > Quotes

“Arturo made an effort to explain the idea of purity to his mother: 'the colored ink breaks off the paper its purity.'
Arturo believed that putting ink on paper invaded the nothing, pure color of the paper. He believed that words should be warehoused in a form other than paper and books. Words to him manifested themselves into pictures and images, and these entities that he saw should be expanded and not locked i words, in sentences, on pages, in books. Ink violates a space; words imprison themselves in themselves.”
― Alejandro Morales, Hombres de ladrillo

“If the victim is a poor Mexican girl, or black, Asian or homosexual, then you just make a note of it for your files, another statistic to prove that gangs are running rampant through poor neighborhoods.”
― Alejandro Morales, Little Nation and Other Stories