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For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power.

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.

You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring.

If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.