In real life, there are right-wingers, there are anti-immigrant activists who want to overturn this constitutional right that we have to become Americans when we're born in this country. There's lots of people who believe that this has led to the phenomenon of the anchor babies. I am an anchor baby. My parents were able to receive their residency and citizenship because, I, a U.S. citizen child of theirs, was born in Los Angeles.
What we're trying to do as writers is rescue, preserve this space of thoughtfulness of language, of a deeper and more honest appreciation of our real… - Hector Tobar
What we're trying to do as writers is rescue, preserve this space of thoughtfulness of language, of a deeper and more honest appreciation of our real…
- Hector Tobar
I'm, by nature, a really optimistic person. It goes back to my parents having been each divorced three times and my finding some way to survive all t… - Hector Tobar
I'm, by nature, a really optimistic person. It goes back to my parents having been each divorced three times and my finding some way to survive all t…
We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art. - Hector Tobar
We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.
I am someone who is fascinated with European German history, the Holocaust, and to see these parallels in our own democratic system, and then to see … - Hector Tobar
I am someone who is fascinated with European German history, the Holocaust, and to see these parallels in our own democratic system, and then to see …
Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world. - Hector Tobar
Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.
I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America stronger. - Hector Tobar
I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America stronger.
There's a lot of really wonderful things about the United States of America, especially its ethnic diversity and its mostly successful struggle to cr… - Hector Tobar
There's a lot of really wonderful things about the United States of America, especially its ethnic diversity and its mostly successful struggle to cr…
In the Latino community, the Trump campaign, even when it seemed it was a long shot he would be elected president, his campaign itself just caused lo… - Hector Tobar
In the Latino community, the Trump campaign, even when it seemed it was a long shot he would be elected president, his campaign itself just caused lo…
Undocumented people have been targeted for years now. Even under the Obama administration, there was a really large number of deportations of undocum… - Hector Tobar
Undocumented people have been targeted for years now. Even under the Obama administration, there was a really large number of deportations of undocum…
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