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The Power of the Pen
The government schedules you to learn your ABCs.
Born in Santa Fe of Chicano and Apache descent, Jimmy Santiago Baca was abandoned by his parents and at thirteen ran away from the orphanage.
They schedule you to learn your addition. Anyone who differs from that schedule is either a dropout or a genius. I’m neither. I just had a desire to learn.
I’m very drawn to southern New Mexico. There needs to be a book written about that area in the same way that Hemingway wrote The Old Man and the Sea.
There’ve been books where I just wrote 200 pages in two weeks and turned it in.
As a painter travels the world, he also mourns the death of his queen, his wife.They’re doing just as well as the books that I contemplated for 10 years.
I call it pickup writing—like pickup basketball. It feels so good to just write, to stream through it.
I never knew how many fans there were for Blood In, Blood Out.
We had 2,000 people standing in the parking lot at one event for the 30-year anniversary.
I think everyone can feel a communal tie to the intimate language of the movie—bilingual language that’s completely understood.
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