Tell It to Me Singing Quotes

“Acceptance and forgiveness are not the same thing... but sometimes they are close enough”
― Tita Ramírez, Tell It to Me Singing

“Meeting Teresita was the thing that helped me the most to get out of my depression. Women need friends. Maybe men don’t, but women do.”
― Tita Ramírez, Tell It to Me Singing

“Those first years I had the feeling she didn’t really like me—that she was one of those people who thought they were better than us because they had been here for twenty years and we had come on the boatlift three years before. We were refugees. They were exiles. As if we hadn’t all left our homes and part of ourselves behind.”
― Tita Ramírez, Tell It to Me Singing

“She wanted a little room for thinking… —Rita Dove, “Daystar” Every person who lives outside his context is always a bit of a ghost, because I am here, but at the same time I remember a person who walked those streets, who is there, and that same person is me. So sometimes I really don’t know if I am here or there. —Reinaldo Arenas, 1983 (as published in Ann Tashi Slater, “Fata Morgana: Reinaldo Arenas, Writers in Exile, and a Visit to the Havana of 1987,” Paris Review, March 4, 2014)”
― Tita Ramírez, Tell It to Me Singing