When you live in Mexico, your houses all have names.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People who know Mexico know me because I'm so much a part of Mexico.
You have the United States, and you have Mexico, and then you have this Mexican-American thing which is this third culture, which I like to call Aztlan.
There are names I do not want mentioned in my home.
I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.
Mexico is a mosaic of different realities and beauties.
In Mexico, they don't have birth certificates... They don't have registration cards for voters. They have one national ID. We don't have a national ID.
My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.
If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
My parents gave me a Mexican name. In our culture, we are named after the events of the day.
I lived in an all-black neighborhood, followed by an all-white one, and other kids in the always called me Mexican in both neighborhoods.