Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes

Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

The purpose of language is to communicate. That's the most basic definition of language. I have my own subjective experience going on in my head, and you have your own subjective experience going on in your head. The only way we can bridge that unbridgeable gap is through language.

A river of words flowed between us.

We are born into a box of time and space. We use words and communication to break out of it and to reach out to others.

I look for the words, Professor. I look for the words because I believe that the words is the way to your heart.

There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love.

Only through communication can human life hold meaning.

You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have.

We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.

Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. They let us know the things we need to know, and also things we wish we didn't.

I don't think love is a tricky issue at all. Love is best understood when we share: Share time, energy, food, resources, insights, information, whatever. It's usually thought of as something that exists between two people, but that's just because it's easier to see and feel in the space between them. Each person is sharing a lot with the other.

Language cares.

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

When you are there, you are. With words, you aren't.

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

Connection is very important. It's extremely important for me to be connected and sharing with other people, giving them what I feel is important.

Communication is important.

It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words.

Food is a great way of communicating.

There's something magical about the idea that you can write something down and someone else can read it. I'm still mildly agog about that.

Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.

Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human.

How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.