I am a Mexican. The United States lived seventy-five years with the one party system in Mexico - the PRI - without batting an eyelid, never demanding democracy of Mexico. Democracy came because Mexicans fought for democracy and made a democracy out of our history, our possibilities, our perspectives. Democracy is not something that can be exported like Coca-Cola. It has to be bred from the inside, according to the culture, the conditions of each country.
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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