Hector Tobar Quotes

• Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.

  Héctor Tobar

  Skins, World, Layers

  Héctor Tobar (2011). “The Barbarian Nurseries: A Novel”, p.257, Macmillan

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• I want to bring Americans into some experiences they ordinarily would not consider. Experiences in Latin America, people in Latin America, I want to bring them closer to those people, and I know I have to work extra hard at my craft to reach across these increasing chasms, these gaps that exist between different kinds of Americans, and that's the work of the artist, is to create these works that sort of help us understand our time.

  Héctor Tobar

  Latin, Artist, America

  Fuente: www.slate.com

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• Los indocumentados llevan años en el punto de mira. Incluso bajo la administración Obama, hubo un gran número de deportaciones de indocumentados. Trump acaba de tomar esa política y la ha elevado varios niveles. La ha hecho mucho más intensa. Se han dado situaciones en las que personas a las que la administración Obama habría dado cobertura, personas a las que se les había prometido un camino hacia la residencia legal, se lo han quitado. No me lo imaginaba. Nunca me lo hubiera imaginado.

  Héctor Tobar

  Taken, Numbers, Years

  Fuente: www.slate.com

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• I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph.

  Héctor Tobar

  Writing, Fighting, Paragraph

  Fuente: www.slate.com

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• We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.

  Héctor Tobar

  Art, Stories

  Fuente: www.slate.com

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• 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 that. I always managed to survive by being upbeat.

  Héctor Tobar

  Optimistic, Parent, Three

  Fuente: www.slate.com

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• 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 reality. And, so, we have to work even harder as writers against this tide of silliness, against this tide of superficiality, against this horrible Greek chorus on Twitter where everyone is insulting each other and now we have an insulter-in-chief, who's risen to the presidency by insulting people.

  Héctor Tobar

  Appreciation, Reality, Space

  Fuente: www.slate.com

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• I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America stronger.

  Héctor Tobar

  Art, America, Important

  Fuente: www.slate.com

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• 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.

  Héctor Tobar

  País, Bebé, Niños

  Fuente: www.slate.com

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• 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 lots of consternation and nervousness and anger. Famously, piñata makers started making piñatas of Donald Trump, even before he won the Republican nomination. There was this sense that, here's a person who's rising in the polls because he's insulting us, because he's created this scapegoated image of us as the people responsible for the decline of the United States.

  Héctor Tobar

  Long, People, Community

  Fuente: www.slate.com

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• 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 them come to this absolutely incredible climax, and this fruition with the election of The Donald, it was just too much.

  Héctor Tobar

  Holocaust, Too Much, German History

  Fuente: www.slate.com

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• There's a lot of really wonderful things about the United States of America, especially its ethnic diversity and its mostly successful struggle to create a democracy out of many different cultures. So, we have a lot of capital as a people, we have a lot of cultural capital to keep our democracy going.

  Héctor Tobar

  Struggle, Successful, America

  Fuente: www.slate.com

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