Who has gone hungry learns to think of the future and of the children.

- Carolina Maria De Jesus

The book is man's best invention so far.

- Carolina Maria De Jesus

We have only one way to be born and many ways to die.

- Carolina Maria De Jesus

will there ever be a drama more beautiful than that of eating?

- Carolina Maria De Jesus

A child is the root of the heart.

- Carolina Maria De Jesus

Life is just like a book. Only after you've read it do you know how it ends. It is when we are at the end of life that we know how our life ran. Mine…

- Carolina Maria De Jesus

I classify Sao Paolo this way: The Governor's Palace is the living room. The mayor's office is the dining room and the city is the garden. And the fa…

- Carolina Maria De Jesus

a poet will even face death when he sees his people oppressed.

- Carolina Maria De Jesus

we are slaves to the cost of living.

- Carolina Maria De Jesus