Juan Felipe Herrera

I've worked throughout California as a poet: in colleges, universities, worker camps, migrant education offices, continuation high schools, juvenile halls, prisons, and gifted classrooms.

As a boy, I felt ashamed of being Mexican. I'd say I was Hawaiian.

Perhaps, like the way these leaves spread out and the way they curl in many directions and how they have many features, I think that's how my road has been.

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.