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Gilbert Hernandez

"We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country."

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"We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country."

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"After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor."

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"I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual."

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"The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet."

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"Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow."

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"French was my first language."

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"I am an American in every fiber of my body and in every heartbeat."

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"Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other."

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"Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes."

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"Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids."
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"I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relatives and cousins and kids in the neighbourhood, were Mexican. Then school was a different world. It was ethnically mixed."
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"We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement."
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"We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio."
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"Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!"
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"We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country."
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