{"quotes":[{"text":"You Can't Be A Hero To The World, If Your Aren't First A Hero In Your Home!","author":"Latif Mercado","tags":["books","freestyle","latif","latino","mercado","music","novels","urban","writer"],"id":21058,"author_id":"Latif+Mercado"},{"text":"To Me, The Best Part Of Success, Is The Journey!","author":"Latif Mercado","tags":["books","freestyle","latif","latino","mercado","music","novels","top","urban","writer"],"id":30715,"author_id":"Latif+Mercado"},{"text":"I Don't Waste My Time Doing Crosswords, As My Life Is The Only Puzzle I Care To Resolve!","author":"Latif Mercado","tags":["book","freestyle","la-entertainment","latif","latino","mercado","music","novel","urban","writer"],"id":35069,"author_id":"Latif+Mercado"},{"text":"You Can't Replace A Star with A Lightbulb.","author":"Latif Mercado","tags":["freestyle","horror","latif","latin","latino","mercado","music","urban","writer"],"id":113229,"author_id":"Latif+Mercado"},{"text":"Your friends, and your associates, and the people around you, and the environment that you live in, and the speakers around you - the speakers around you - and the communicators around you, are the poetry makers.If your mother tells you stories, she is a poetry maker.If your father says stories, he is a poetry maker.If your grandma tells you stories, she is a poetry maker.And that’s who forms our poetics.","author":"Juan Felipe Herrera","tags":["latino","poetry"],"id":122568,"author_id":"Juan+Felipe+Herrera"},{"text":"The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becomes a preoccupation to folks around the country, including me.","author":"Raquel Cepeda","tags":["america","american-people","american-society","hispanics","identity","identity-crisis","identity-politics","latina-americans","latino","latino-americans","race","race-relations","racial-tension","racism","status-quo"],"id":138757,"author_id":"Raquel+Cepeda"},{"text":"The Best Deal Is The One Where Everyone Walks Away Happy!","author":"Latif Mercado","tags":["books","freestyle","latif","latino","mercado","music","novels"],"id":168451,"author_id":"Latif+Mercado"},{"text":"The fact that Iam writing to youin Englishalready falsifies what Iwanted to tell you.My subject:how to explain to youthat I don't belong to Englishthough I belong nowhere else,if not herein English.","author":"Gustavo Perez Firmat","tags":["latino","poetry"],"id":169091,"author_id":"Gustavo+Perez+Firmat"},{"text":"Thank God For Writing, As Now I Can Work Until My Last Breath!","author":"Latif Mercado","tags":["books","freestyle","latino","music","novels","urban"],"id":183745,"author_id":"Latif+Mercado"},{"text":"Attitude Is More Important Than Talent.","author":"Latif Mercado","tags":["books","freestyle","latino","music","novels","urban"],"id":212594,"author_id":"Latif+Mercado"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":37,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}