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I Think The Possibilities Are Endless In Terms Of What The Genre Would Be Like. However, In Terms Of Looking For Sources Of Money, I Think We Have To Be Very Careful Not To Fall Into Hollywood's Commodification Of Chicano Culture. We Could Look At The Example Of Piri Thomas, A Successful Puerto Rican Writer Now Living In The Bay Area, Who Has Received Repeated Offers From Hollywood...and He Said He's Not Going To Write About His People Doing Drugs And Going To Jail.

You Know You Have That Zealousness Of The Young Person That Feels Like You Can Go Out And Do It All. You Know You Save The World, Save Your Gente, Save Women And Before You Know It If You Try To Do That You Will Burn Out Very Quickly. My Feeling Is That I Always Think That And My Advice To Young People Regardless Of What Times In These Decades We've Been Living In There's Always Work To Be Done. The Point Is What Can You Do Personally That You Can Live With So That You Can Get Up The Next Morning And Have The Strength To Start It All Over Again.

Our Goal Should Be To Achieve Joy

Paris, True To Its Promise, Had Been A Place Of Civilized Indecencies, Or Uncivil Decencies.

We Were Doing The Same Thing. We Will Never Have "a" Chicano English Or Spanish Because Of Regional Differences. But I Think That Because Of Our Bilingual History, We'll Always Be Speaking A Special Kind Of English And Spanish. What We Do Have To Do Is Fight For The Right To Use Those Two Languages In The Way That It Serves Us. Nuevo-mexicanos Have Done It Very Well For Hundreds Of Years, Inventing Words Where They Don't Have Them. I Think The Future Of Our Language Is Where We Claim Our Bilingualism For Its Utility.