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“Indian memory is Mexican memory. Their history is our history—implicit, silent, inevitable.”

“The land of their birth, the ‘nacimiento,’ seemed to become a memory of a dream of a lost world.”

“As ‘a raza,’ a “nation,” we are a ‘Diaspora within a Diaspora.’”

“It sometimes seems as if Mexicans are to forgetting what the Jews are to remembering. We have made selective forgetting a sacramental obligation. Leave it all in the past, all that you were, and all that you could not be. There is pain enough in the present to go around. Some memories cannot be abandoned. Let the past reclaim all of the rest, forever, and let stories come to their fitting end.”