Cuban Author Quotes

José Martí

Alejo Carpentier

Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda

Nancy Morejón

Life will drag us kicking and screaming to our destiny if we try to escape it.

Alberto Villoldo

the heart of the city has not yet died
for us need never die.

I resolved to venture on my escape, and in case of detection, to suffer for something.... I saddled the horse for the first time in my life, put on the bridle, but with such trembling that I hardly knew what I was about.. When I was going away, I heard the sound of a voice saying "God bless you, make haste."

Juan Francisco Manzano

In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown is revealed, existence is infinite, there is no possibility of sacrifice, all is rest and joy. For this reason, bowed down by suffering and duties, beautiful in the midst of his misery, capable of loving in the face of afflictions and trials, man finds his greatness, his fullest measure, only in The Kingdom of This World.

Alejo Carpentier

I have always considered it despicable to grovel for your life as if life were a favor. If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living

Reinaldo Arenas

The nation that buys commands, the nation that sells serves; it is necessary to balance trade in order to ensure freedom; the country that wants to die sells only to one country, and the country that wants to survive sells to more than one.

Don Carlos was one of those peaceful and indolent men who do not know how to do evil, nor to go to great lengths to do good.

Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda