"Because nothing should be wasted
In a world where sparrows work hard
To prove there is enough."
— Gary Soto (Elements of San Joaquin)

"I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences."
— Gary Soto (Gary Soto: New and Selected Poems)

"The black asphalt wouls shimmer with vapors I had a theory about those vapors...not released by the sun but by a huge onion buried under the city. This onion made us cry... I thought about the giant onion, that remarkable bulb of sadness."
— Gary Soto (Buried Onions)

""going back and forth, back and forth, getting nowhere""
— Gary Soto (Buried Onions)

"It appears these days I don't have much of a life because my nose is often stuck in a book. But I discovered that reading builds a life inside the mind."
— Gary Soto

"Thats too bad its gonna be show and tell ese
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— Gary Soto