"The Fool card represented one who walked without fear, aware of the choices she made in the journey of life, life itself being defined as a state of courage and wisdom and not an uncontrollable participation in society, as many people experienced their lives." #sofarfromgod #hispanicheritagemonth #latinxliterature
"Deny me bread, air, light, spring, but never your laughter for I would die." #latinxliterature #hispanicheritagemonth #lovepoems
"You gotta be able to know what to do with hips when you get them." #hispanicheritagemonth #latinxliterature #houseonmangostreet
"That we can see and understand everything just as well alive as dead, only when we're alive we don't have the time, or the peace of mind, or the inclination to see and understand what we could. We're too busy rushing to our graves." #dreamingincuban #hispanicheritagemonth #latinxliterature
"For this is God‘s great plan, that people rise up beyond their personal hatreds, here, right now, in this new land where so many different people with so many different bloods have come to join together and that we recognize we are all the children of God! Every one of us!" #hispanicheritagemonth #rainofgold #latinxliterature
"Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle would be any kind of food, music, caress, word, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches. " #likewaterforchocolate #hispanicheritagemonth #latinxliterature
