Quote of the day
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Born: February 17, 1836
Died: December 22, 1870 (aged 34)
Bio: Gustavo Adolfo Claudio Domínguez Bastida, better known as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer was a Spanish post-romanticist poet and writer, also a playwright, literary columnist, and talented in drawing.
Known for:
- Rimas y leyendas
- Los Ojos Verdes
- The devil's cross
- Historia de los templos de España
- Legends, Tales And Poems







