Across the Wire Quotes

“Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.”
― Luis Alberto Urrea, Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border

“It seems jolly on the page. But imagine poverty, violence, natural disasters, or political fear driving you away from everything you know. Imagine how bad things get to make you leave behind your family, your friends, your lovers; your home, as humble as it might be; your church, say. Let's take it further - you've said good-bye to the graveyard, the dog, the goat, the mountains where you hunted, your grade school, your state, your favorite spot on the river where you fished and took time to think.”
― Luis Alberto Urrea, Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border