Putinoika Quotes

“In that prejudice disguised as objective you see the negation of poetry.”
― Giannina Braschi, Putinoika

“We don’t need storytellers. We need soothsayers. I never said I am a storyteller. I said I am a soothsayer. I say the sooth.”
― Giannina Braschi, Putinoika

“Delusion is a compression of an illusion. You press oranges to get juice and taste the bitterness of the rind.”
― Giannina Braschi, Putinoika

“Imagination starts where nothing works. Where people say: Nothing works—this is a disaster. I say: I’ll take it from here.”
― Giannina Braschi, Putinoika

“An orgy is a communal disintegration of the senses that become delusional.”
― Giannina Braschi, Putinoika

“A month doesn’t produce what a day can give. A nanosecond can be more productive than all the technology of an hour.”
― Giannina Braschi, Putinoika

“Technology came with the promise, I’ll liberate you from the chains of work. Instead, it enchained you to the shackles of need and want. I don’t need. I desire. Desire is a liberation from need. Desire opens its wings to the plenty of possibilities arising for all of us, in the air, in the water, in the sun. Desire makes us strong. Need is weak and meek and coughs and can’t make it by itself alone.”
― Giannina Braschi, Putinoika

“On Make America Great Again:

The agenda of a dead body coming back to life. Whenever you have the past (what is dead) presenting itself as an agenda to fix the present moment by taking us back—to the dead—you have contagion, pest, collusion, pollution, delusion—not illusion. Illusion is a hope. Delusion is a past illusion presenting itself as hope. Hope is something that has not happened yet, but when it happens, and the happening has already died and been buried—and other present moments have come forward and made us live other present moments—and a dead body—a dead moment—comes back presenting itself as if it were alive—and it is dead—and it doesn’t tell us that it is dead—that is not an illusion—that is a delusion.”
― Giannina Braschi, Putinoika

“Advice is a personal annotation. And wisdom belongs to all and to none and lasts for generations to come.”
― Giannina Braschi, Putinoika

“When you create a genre—which is not a movement—because it has no past—and if it has a past—its past is pregnant with a future bigger than its past—its past is its post-creation—only a point of departure—it created modes of thinking. A genre has in itself movements, generations—and after all these concepts expire in time—the genre—that is an artifact—that is a fact made shift—it doesn’t belong to a date—it is not dated—it includes all the expirations that expire in its belly—and it is still pregnant with new beginnings.”
― Giannina Braschi, Putinoika