Imagine, you know, if I did not have access to the memories of my grandma or to my grandfather. If I could not talk to my uncles in Spanish, I would be very poor as a person.

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Imagine, you know, if I did not have access to the memories of my grandma or to my grandfather. If I could not talk to my uncles in Spanish, I would be very poor as a person.

On why he valued being multilingual to connect with his family and community in “Francisco Alarcon, Whose Poetry Explored Chicano Life In The U.S., Dies” in NPR (2016 Jan 20)