Latinamerica Quotes

“Don't let your current situation dictate your future. Never let fear and doubt overcome your true dreams.”
― LeJuan James, Definitely Hispanic: Growing Up Latino and Celebrating What Unites Us

“who has time to dream about butterflies in a world of caged birds?”
― Ana Silvani, Half Love: Metade Amor - Bilingual Poems (English & Portuguese). An immigrant poetic journey and her pondering about life, love and loss

“Old women like Peta Ponce have the power to fold time over and confuse it, they multiply and divide it, events are refracted in their gnarled hands as in the most brilliant prism, they cut the consecutive happening of things into fragments they arrange in parallel form, they bend those fragments and twist them into shapes that enable them to carry out their designs.”
― José Donoso, The Obscene Bird of Night

“Las viejas como la Peta Ponce tienen el poder de plegar y confundir el tiempo, lo multiplican y lo dividen, los acontecimientos se refractan en sus manos verrugosas como en el prisma más brillante, cortan el suceder consecutivo en trozos que disponen en forma paralela, curvan esos trozos y los enroscan organizando estructuras que les sirven para que se cumplan sus designios.”
― José Donoso, The Obscene Bird of Night