Braschi Quotes

#1. The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

Carol P. Christ

#2. The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#3. What is liberty? The measure of dignity.

Giannina Braschi

#4. If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.

Giannina Braschi

#5. Other women who are killing it should motivate you, thrill you, challenge you and inspire you.

Taylor Swift

#6. Talk a walk with me through nature and let's gaze on the marvelous wonders of creation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. 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.

Giannina Braschi

#8. Some love stories has no end, no path or no name, but they are 'love stories' too.

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

#9. We were fighting for them in wars against people that we had more in common with than with the United States of Banana.

Giannina Braschi

#10. Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.

Giannina Braschi

#11. If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.

Dan Webster

#12. Doesn't every generation feel like the one that's coming up behind them doesn't know how to grow up? I'm not sure if we're progressively getting worse or if your perspective shifts.

Jason Reitman

#13. Poetry must find ways of breaking distance ... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.

Giannina Braschi

#14. Nativity is the enemy of prophecy.

Giannina Braschi

#15. It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.

Giannina Braschi

#16. Only what is fated to die is capable of living. Only what dies lives.

Giannina Braschi

#17. Questions don't change the truth. But they give it motion.

Giannina Braschi

#18. Solitude goes wherever you go, traveler.

Giannina Braschi

#19. 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

#20. I have nothing against the smell of rot but something against what hides the smell of rot in the United States of America.

Giannina Braschi

#21. Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.

Giannina Braschi

#22. Please, dear God of happiness, show the radiance of your spectrum to our world, which here means to forget everything.

Sorin Cerin

#23. 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.

Giannina Braschi

#24. He wasn't looking at me, and I wasn't looking at him. "Sometimes I wonder if you make decisions just to piss me off."
I glared at the road. "Sometimes I wonder if you give yourself too much credit in my decision-making.

Catherine Doyle

#25. 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.

Giannina Braschi