"A smart-alecky boy threw a pebble at me and said “This isn’t the Mexican bus stop. You have to go to the Mexican bus stop…I had never experienced racial tension, but in La Jolla we saw incredible—to us—prejudice."
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On experiencing prejudice during her childhood and how that affected future writings (as quoted in the book Necessary Theater: Six Plays about the Chicano Experience)
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