Tony Diaz

The after-party for opening night of QUIXOTE NUEVO at The Alley Theatre is the perfect metaphor for the love that great art can create when its presented right and when it respects our community.

We face 100 fires every day, and outsiders barely see the smoke. We have to monitor all of them to make sure we are not consumed as we extinguish those whose heat is closest.

Every family should thrive enough to create a poet. Every family should thrive enough to cultivate an elected official. Each of these vocations requires a lot of hard work, talent, and public scrutiny. Each is admirable. Yet in our community, we don’t often talk about the costs of cultivating either one. The real question is, […]

It will take an act of Congress to replace the word “Hispanic.”

Our sheer talent and intelligence will deliver an era of fair exchanges of community cultural capital. That is what our community needs to thrive.

If you simply translate your brochure into Spanish, you have not done anything profoundly to reach the Latino demographic.

But just remember, it should be as easy to find the fine art as it is to find the fajitas. Otherwise, diversity is just a slogan.

All the proof has been laid out throughout the entire series.

This city is powerful.

The Godfather of Chicano literature on where we go next.

I can finally put into words the blessing that will benefit my community and unite us with your community.

Our young believe there are no books by or about Latinos.

We are built for this era.

Policy change is the tip of the pyramid, and our Community’s Cultural Capital is the base.

I became a kingpin of contraband prose.

That sentence is intended to sentence our senses to cents. Yet, we hear it all the time.

The time is now.

I am more comfortable talking about this the day of the election because there is little the Ted Cruz campaign can do to respond.

Politico recently ran a piece called “Hispanics Won’t Turn Texas Blue.” File it under the category of essays I call “Too Little, Too Soon.” These types of essays have three goals: Convince Latinos that their vote does not matter. Convince Republicans that they are doing better then miserable with Latinos. Dissuade Democrats from doing more to […]

California. Proposition 187. Pete Wilson. Arizona. HB2811. Jan Brewer. Texas. HB1938. Giovanni Capriglione. Texas. SB1128. Dan Patrick. The Librotraficante Movement is thrilled to announce that America can erase the last two entries from the above list of oppressive laws attacking our culture. Texas Republican Senator Dan Patrick introduced SB1128, and Texas Republican House of Representative […]

Editor's Note: We are proud to call Tony Diaz, the Librotraficante, a key member of the Latino Rebels familia. I was recently knighted. I didn’t fully understand what was happening at the time as I flew to New York. But I did know that we were making history. All around the nation Librotraficantes convened, on […]