[Unedited] Sandra Cisneros with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Sociology, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Arts, Culture, On Being, Society, Society & Culture, Science, Social Sciences

4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2020

⏱️ 99 minutes

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The House on Mango Street by Mexican American writer Sandra Cisneros has been taught in high schools across the U.S. for decades. A poetic writer of many genres, she’s received a MacArthur “genius grant,” a National Medal of Arts, and many other accolades. Cisneros grew up in an immigrant household where it was assumed she would marry as her primary destiny. In this warm and lively conversation with a room full of Latinx teens, she gives voice to the choice to be single — and, single or not, to know solitude as sacred.

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0:00.0	Support for on-being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build the
0:04.4	spiritual foundation for a loving world. Fetzer envisions a world that embraces love as a guiding
0:10.2	principle and animating force for our lives. A powerful love that helps us live in sacred
0:15.2	relationship with ourselves, others, and the natural world. Learn more by visiting Fetzer.org.
0:22.6	I'm Christa Tippett. Up next, my unedited conversation with writer Sondersis Narros.
0:28.7	There is a shorter, produced version of this wherever you found this podcast.
0:44.1	Hello, everyone. Welcome. Thank you so much for coming here tonight. If you all could just
0:49.1	take a moment to check your cell phones and make sure they're on vibrate because we're going to
0:51.9	be recording this conversation for a potential feature broadcasts on our podcasts and on public
0:57.0	radio stations. I tried to take Sandra's person and she said this is how she loses them so she
1:02.4	wouldn't give it to me. Smart woman. So my name is Leanne Maria Berci-Rise, Lily Percy. I am
1:10.8	executive producer here at On-Being Studios. I'm also a very proud board member of Central
1:15.7	Tiong Guzman and they are the organization that we are all honoring here tonight as part of the day
1:21.8	of the Dead Celebration. I won't say too much but I just want to share a little bit about my
1:27.6	experience with Centro which has been transformative. I moved here six years ago and I started volunteering
1:33.6	with them. I think a little bit over three years and they have given me a home. They really have
1:40.6	a try not to get too emotional. I am Colombian American and when I moved here it was really hard
1:46.4	transition to find community. If you have the privilege of ever going to Centro you will immediately
1:52.5	feel at home. As soon as you walk in you feel the love and the kindness and the intention that
1:57.8	everyone who works there puts into every part of their job. All the teenagers are here representing.
2:07.1	And they're just one part of the folks that make up the community of Centro that I hope you get
2:12.6	to meet tonight and be introduced to. I can truly say that my life has been both changed and
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