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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.”
― Gary Soto

“Because nothing should be wasted
In a world where sparrows work hard
To prove there is enough.”
― Gary Soto, The Elements of San Joaquin (Pitt Poetry

“going back and forth, back and forth, getting nowhere”
― Gary Soto, Buried Onions

“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.”
― Gary Soto, Buried Onions

“I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.”
― Gary Soto, New and Selected Poems

“I drank that sentence and began to glow.”
― Gary Soto, Partly Cloudy: Poems of Love and Longing – Emotionally Resonant YA Verse About First Crushes and Heartbreak

“I'll be the invisible girl,
Everyone passing through me,

No one touching.”
― Gary Soto

“Dead, with my eyes wide open, I began a new life without a body. I had nothing to fear.   DOWNTOWN”
― Gary Soto, The Afterlife

“This shit is magic-you'd have to be a Black girl to understand.
Show 'em how it all got started
How the bricks got laid
That this is what happens when the ink spills
When your ancestors dance your worth awake,”
― Ebony Stewart, The BreakBeat Poets, Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic