I wanted to document, somehow, the strength of those people… - Tomás Rivera

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I wanted to document, somehow, the strength of those people that I had known . . . when the migrant worker was living without any kind of protection.

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Tomás Rivera (December 22, 1935 – May 16, 1984) was a author, poet, and educator.

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…And I was only concerned about the migrant worker, the people I had known best. I had been a migrant worker. So I began to see that my role—if I want to call it that—would be to document that period of time, but giving it some kind of spiritual strength or spiritual history.

When people asked what I wanted to be, I'd tell them a writer. They were surprised or indifferent. If people don't read, what is a writer?

I wanted to document, somehow, the strength of those people that I had known . . . when the migrant worker was living without any kind of protection. - Tomás Rivera

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