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Quotes About Barrio

Bah! Do you think the poor people of the barrio pay for the upkeep of the Church? No! Wealth flows from wealth! And sources of wealth need stability to exist! And the Church provides stability! We teach the poor how to bear their burden; they are promised the kingdom of heaven, which is far more important than the little gains your strike would make …
~ Rudolfo Anaya
and the shortcuts through the woods that led to the next barrio where all sorts of pocavergüenzas took place.
~ Esmeralda Santiago
I liked the books I read that said things like 'I shan't'. I would try to find a way to say in my life, to reply, 'I shan't do that, mother.' That was so far away from my barrio world.
~ Sandra Cisneros
cuando el bus de la realidad, como el del recuerdo, paró justamente en la plaza de Cisneros, en el corazón del ratero barrio de Guayaquil.
~ Fernando Vallejo
I used to think those were the barrio rules, Latinos and blacks in, whites out —a place we down cats weren't supposed to go. But love teaches you. Clears your head of any rules.
~ Junot Diaz
My grandmother and my mom and my aunt Aurelia, my grandmother Juanita, my mom Lucia - we lived on the outskirts of a barrio in Mexico City called Tepito, and Tepito for many, many decades was the largest barrio in Mexico and perhaps even Latin America.
~ Juan Felipe Herrera
barrio tokiota de Iriya, cerca de Ueno, donde se celebra desde hace muchos siglos el Asagao Matsuri, el festival de las campanillas. Del 6 al 8 de julio, todos los años
~ Unknown
Para trabajar por la defensa nacional, llama a su pueblo a crear Círculos Bolivarianos en cada barrio, en cada organización. Ésta es su versión de los legendarios Comités de Defensa de la Revolución, los CDR, que instauró Fidel al principio de su largo gobierno:
~ Moisés Naím