Top 16 Giannina Braschi Quotes
#2. Zarathustra: Do you have words? Do your words belong to you?
Giannina: No, my answer is no. I have no property in the dictionary. Words are anonymous like the disenfranchised masses that haven't been weighed - or named - or framed. My words belong to those who don't belong.
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#3. Ambulances always come with clouds of smoke. And then they disappear in a whistle. But what they bring is fear. Not freedom. Feardom is what they bring. And they bring fire and smoke. Oh, my nerves are bad tonight, yes, bad. I fear freedom. I, above all, fear the freedom that is above all feardom.
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#4. Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.
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#5. I have nothing against the smell of rot but something against what hides the smell of rot in the United States of America.
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#6. I love hiccups and I love sneezes and I love blinks and I love belches and I love gluttons. I love hair. I love bears. For me, the round. For me, the world.
Giannina Braschi
#9. Only what is fated to die is capable of living. Only what dies lives.
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#10. It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.
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#11. Poetry must find ways of breaking distance ... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.
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#12. Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.
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#13. We were fighting for them in wars against people that we had more in common with than with the United States of Banana.
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#14. A baby is expected. A trip is expected. News is expected. Forgetfulness is expected. An invitation is expected. Hope is expected. But memories are not expected. They just come.
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#15. If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.
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