Anything would be better in the US than what you have. As a government it's really very low quality, given the fact that this country produces eminent intellectuals, has great universities, and then the people who arrive in government are very mediocre. The Latin American situation has been very different in the first place, because writers have spoken for those who have no voice. The rate of illiteracy, poverty, joblessness in Latin America has been so great throughout our history that if the writers didn't speak out for the people, nobody would.
I have no literary fears. - Carlos Fuentes
I have no literary fears.
- Carlos Fuentes
Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me. - Carlos Fuentes
Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
Writing is a struggle against silence. - Carlos Fuentes
Writing is a struggle against silence.
The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of… - Carlos Fuentes
The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of…
Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate. - Carlos Fuentes
Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.
chaos: it has no plural. - Carlos Fuentes
chaos: it has no plural.
Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre. - Carlos Fuentes
Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.
Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history. - Carlos Fuentes
Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.
I need, therefore I imagine. - Carlos Fuentes
I need, therefore I imagine.
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