Gerard Dion > Gerard's Quotes

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.”
― Malcolm X

“Naked you are blue like the night in Cuba,
you have vines and stars in your hair,”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“Cuba may be the only place in the world where you can be yourself and more than yourself at the same time”
― Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, Dirty Havana Trilogy

“I will never understand
the whole world

or even
one country.

All I can do
is try to understand
the truth and lies
in the simplest choices
I face
every day.”
― Margarita Engle, Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba

“Memory is the most potent truth.
Show me history untouched by memories
and you show me lies.”
― Carlos Eire

“they dance so fast, good and evil, these two polar opposites. So tightly and furiously. You can’t dance with just one of these partners. If you cut into their dance, you end up with both, as a threesome. And if you fear cutting into the dance and taking a spin with good and evil, you end up dancing with the cross-eyed, ugly chaperone. Even the deepest, most wondrous love can sometimes bring you to that dismal dance, and then every single tune is a tango. A bad tango composed by an angry, drunken Argentine just for you and your loved one. A tango that never ends. But back to those Cuban parties: no dancing there. None at all. Furious”
― Carlos Eire, Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy

“Happiness includes all numbers. It's infinite and eternal.”
― Carlos Eire, Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy