Quotes by Cuban Authors - Page 2

The greatness of the enterprise does not always ensure success, but at least ensures glory.
Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
A man's allowed to make lots of small mistakes, and there's nothing wrong with that. But if the mistakes are big ones and they weigh him down, his only solution is to stop taking himself seriously. It's the only way to avoid suffering - suffering, prolonged, can be fatal.
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
Good for you and be proud of yourself because you have your priorities in order. Be proud of yourself if you are responsible, reliable, persistent, and take your job and education seriously.
Ana Monnar
There is no place more lonelyThan a rich man's home.
Margarita Engle
Treat other people's home as you want them to respect yours because what goes around comes around.
Ana Monnar
Choose your friends and mates, not by the money in their bank account, creed, ethnicity, or color; instead, choose character, actions, heart, and soul. When we bleed, we bleed the same color.
Ana Monnar
The child tells me her grandmothershowed her how to cure sadness by sucking the juice of an orange, while standing on a beach.Toss the peels onto a wave.Watch the sadness float away.
Margarita Engle
Idyllic memories are merely a jeweled noose.
Orlando Ricardo Menes
Cultivo una rosa blanca,En julio como en enero,Para el amigo sinceroQue me da su mano franca.Y para el cruel que me arrancaEl corazon con que vivo,Cardo ni oruga cultivoCultivo una rosa blanca.I have a white rose to tendIn July as in January;I give it to the true friendWho offers his frank hand to me.And to the cruel one whose blowsBreak the heart by which I live,Thistle nor thorn do I give:For him, too, I have a white rose.
José Martí
Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together.
Assata Shakur
Finally, Christians were accused of being subversive, for they refused to worship the emperor and thus destroyed the very fiber of society. The apologists answered that it was true that they refused to worship the emperor or any other creature, but that in spite of this they were loyal subjects of the empire. What the emperor needs—they said—is not to be worshiped, but to be served; and those who serve him best are those who pray for him and for the empire to the only true God.
Justo L. González
Without even trying to be a teacher, Fredrika is teaching us,Showing us how to see things in new waysInstead of always thinkingThe same old thoughtsThat have been passed along by strangersDay after day, year after yearWithout any spirit of amazementOr wonder,
Margarita Engle
Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.
Achy Obejas
On this Mother's Day and every day before and after, I thank you God for the precious gift of my three children. I love them unconditionally.
Ana Monnar
We speak in Spanish when we make love. English seems an impossible language for intimacy.
Cristina García
Let us see what tomorrow will bring us? Will it be joy and triumph, chaos and glory, love and growth, or victory and success?
Ana Monnar
Life Is, a Rose.
Ana Monnar
Making the ungrateful grateful is a tedious endeavor.
Ana Monnar
Saturday is a day for the spa. RELAX, indulge, enjoy, and love yourself, too.
Ana Monnar
Raising teenage sons and daughters is a long and tiresome journey. With God's help the final outcome will be worthwhile.
Ana Monnar
Anticipation is sometimes more exciting than actual events.
Ana Monnar
For most people life is not a fairy tale, it is an adventure.
Ana Monnar
Strength of the mind is more powerful than strength of the muscles.
Ana Monnar
For me, the sea was a great comfort, Pilar. But it made my children restless. It exists now so we can call and wave from opposite shores.
Cristina García
Our pets are our family.
Ana Monnar
My daughter and two sons are the flowers in my heart and garden.
Ana Monnar
Do you come from old money, new money, or no money?
Ana Monnar
Making the ungrateful grateful will bring tears to your eyes, tears of blood bleeding from the heart.
Ana Monnar
Night simply drapes itself over the dayAs if someone had lowered a curtain.The sky glitters and moves,Filled with shooting stars and fireflies.
Margarita Engle
Work hard, put maximum effort, and have a good attitude. Most importantly never give up.
Ana Monnar
Because there is no nation so powerful it cannot be wounded, nor a people so small they cannot offer mighty comfort.
Carmen Agra Deedy
I know that imprisonment will be harder for me than it has ever been for anyone, filled with cowardly threats and hideous cruelty. But I do not fear prison, as I do not fear the fury of the miserable tyrant who took the lives of 70 of my comrades. Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
Fidel Castro
The war that killed my grandfather and great-uncles and thousands of other blacks is only a footnote in our history books.
Cristina García
The world, in spite of oppression, is a beautiful place.
Assata Shakur
I resent the hell out of the politicians and generals who force events on us that structure our lives, that dictate the memories we'll have when we're old.
Cristina García
The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.
Fidel Castro
If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.
Fidel Castro
I’m not attached to anything.I’m attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty.I think that I will die with the boots on.
Fidel Castro
Cuba may be the only place in the world where you can be yourself and more than yourself at the same time
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
Cuba will be free. I already am.
Reinaldo Arenas
I'm not quite sure what freedom is, but i know damn well what it ain't. How have we gotten so silly, i wonder.
Assata Shakur
Slavery all day,and then, suddenly, by nightfall- freedom!
Margarita Engle
I would have run awayInto the forestTo live in a nestMade of dreamsAnd green leaves
Margarita Engle
this is the 21st century and we need to redefine r/evolution. this planet needs a people’s r/evolution. a humanist r/evolution. r/evolution is not about bloodshed or about going to the mountains and fighting. we will fight if we are forced to but the fundamental goal of r/evolution must be peace.we need a r/evolution of the mind. we need a r/evolution of the heart. we need a r/evolution of the spirit. the power of the people is stronger than any weapon. a people’s r/evolution can’t be stopped. we need to be weapons of mass construction. weapons of mass love. it’s not enough just to change the system. we need to change ourselves. we have got to make this world user friendly. user friendly.are you ready to sacrifice to end world hunger. to sacrifice to end colonialism. to end neo-colonialism. to end racism. to end sexism.r/evolution means the end of exploitation. r/evolution means respecting people from other cultures. r/evolution is creative.r/evolution means treating your mate as a friend and an equal. r/evolution is sexy.r/evolution means respecting and learning from your children. r/evolution is beautiful.r/evolution means protecting the people. the plants. the animals. the air. the water. r/evolution means saving this planet.r/evolution is love.
Assata Shakur
The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.
Fidel Castro
Ungrateful people forget what they are not grateful for.
Ana Monnar
My plan is to continue teaching many more years than the 32 years I've already enjoyed and continue writing, and promoting my books and websites if it's God will.
Ana Monnar
At times, I have been convinced that books hold all the material of life--at least all the stuff that fits between an A and a Z.
Abelardo Morell
The future is a split second away.
Ana Monnar
A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
Fidel Castro
The kiss intimately relates to the most primitive kind of human contact, which can satisfy all of our needs, like: feeding, enjoying pleasure, tasting, wanting, rejecting, everything we associate with love.
Mabel Iam
Among the many answers I have found, I believe love is the most beautiful and simple art that reflects the beauty of life.
Mabel Iam
Love is beyond reason. Love is not measurable in words. Love cannot be partial it cannot have owners. Love is essentially beyond definition or concept.
Mabel Iam
I'm happy for all who reached for the stars happily and successfully.
Ana Monnar
We must think of ourselves as a tribe — as an international community that has come together with a common purpose of being initiated into the process.We all have to do it together. There is a link that happens — where THE growth, my growth, depends on the others' growth around us.We can no longer take these steps by ourselves. We have created a synergistic community. We must take a step towards knowledge together.
Alberto Villoldo
Ignorance is the root of many ills. Knowledge must be the fundamental ally of nations that aspire, despite all their tragedies and problems, to become truly emancipated, to build a better world.
Fidel Castro
Sharing will enrich everyone with more knowledge.
Ana Monnar
Santería was traditionally an unacknowledged and underappreciated aspect of what it meant to be Cuban. Yet the syncretism between the Yoruban religion that the slaves brought to the island and the Catholicism of their masters is, in my opinion, the underpinning of Cuban culture. Every artistic realm--music, theater, literature, etc.--owes a huge debt to santería and the slaves who practiced it and passed it on, largely secretively, for generations.
Cristina García
Believe in everything, just in case.
Camila Cabello
We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.
José Martí