As a young writer i was on guard against the latina in me the spanish to me because as far as i could see the models that were presented to me did not include my world in fact i was told by one teacher in college that one could only write poetry in the language in which one's first said mother that left me out of america literature for sure the question is julia's tried to get a point across to her readers about the importance of minorities women people color different class different languages that are being represented in the literature that they read how does this quote make you feel why is it important for a person to be able to see themselves in the books they read