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Image of Adam Morris
One that actually relates to all Latin American literature: that is, not every author is interested in being a representative of his or her national culture on the global stage.
- Adam Morris
Collection: Latin
Image of Adam Morris
Jorge Luis Borges was lamenting a variety of Orientalism that was used to measure the alleged authenticity of Argentine and Latin American writers in the midcentury. The Argentine literary tradition was believed by many, including many Argentines, to be concerned with a national imaginary in which the gauchos and the pampas and the tango were fundamental tropes. Borges, in part to legitimize his own Europhilia, correctly pointed out that expecting writers to engage with these romantic nationalist tropes was arbitrary and limiting, a genre that was demonstrative of its own artificiality.
- Adam Morris
Collection: Latin
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With My Dog-Eyes by Hilda Hilst got more exposure and reached far more readers than I ever expected. Even my editor at Melville House, who championed the project form the outset, told me she was surprised by the response. After this, editors began asking my opinion about which Latin American writers ought to be translated. I realized I had some cultural capital to spend, and I wanted to use it to introduce another author who might be considered a risk by conventional publishers. Michael Noll was at the top of my list.
- Adam Morris
Collection: Latin
Image of Adam Morris
The main reason I decided to study Latin American literature was because I'd gotten somewhat bored by the American fiction I was reading. I am not drawn to a specific style or aesthetic. When I think about literature, I think about it in the three languages I read easily - English, Spanish, and Portuguese. The authors I prefer are all very different and are not limited to certain genres or even certain time periods. Reading across three languages is a way for me to diversify my intake as a reader, not to tunnel into certain categories or demographics.
- Adam Morris
Collection: Latin
Image of Cynthia Kauffman
I often refer to myself as a radical, reminding people that the word radical comes from the Latin word radix, meaning root. I think we need to get to the roots of problems as we try to solve them. I also like the word anti-capitalist.
- Cynthia Kauffman
Collection: Latin
Image of Bocafloja
I think in terms of the themes that I have worked on most is establishing questions of race in the context of Latin America. This is a theme that makes uncomfortable a lot of people, and it obviously makes the Latin American Left uncomfortable.
- Bocafloja
Collection: Latin
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When you arrive really inside the discussion of race, practically they institute a Mexican-ness, a Latin-ness, a racial community that just isn't true. So, we know who are the people that have the majority of power, access and privileges in Mexico, and they are white Mexicans.
- Bocafloja
Collection: Latin
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I believe in terms of the work that I do, in establishing dialogue about race relations in Latin America, steps on one of the most relevant themes today.
- Bocafloja
Collection: Latin
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The Latin American Left, the criollos, direct descendents of Spaniards, they don't want to accept that they are the whites of Latin America. They don't want to talk about race. The discussion for them is based on class struggle, rich against poor, but doesn't offer the possibility of a dialogue about racial questions.
- Bocafloja
Collection: Latin
Image of Lourdes Portillo
I looked to many, many filmmakers. I was influenced by the Neo-Realists, and by the Cuban, and the Latin American cinema, the '70s, European experimental work. And fortunately, all those influences gave me the strength to think, "I can make my way. I'm a creative person, I can try to create a way that is uniquely mine because I've seen so much, and I've experienced so much."
- Lourdes Portillo
Collection: Latin
Image of Jack Waters
I was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and am a product of a family that were jazz aficionados and also very interested in progressive politics. And so I had a lot of artists and musicians in my home. Lots of Latin music, folk, and jazz and blues, bluegrass-type of stuff. Painters and stuff like that.
- Jack Waters
Collection: Latin
Image of Ross Gelbspan
The Aedes aegypti mosquito, which spreads dengue fever and yellow fever, has traditionally been unable to survive at altitudes higher than 1,000 meters because of colder temperatures there. But with recent warming trends, those mosquitoes have now been reported at 1,240 meters in Costa Rica and at 2,200 meters in Columbia. Malaria-bearing mosquitoes, too, have moved to higher elevations in central Africa, Asia, and parts of Latin America, triggering new outbreaks of the disease.
- Ross Gelbspan
Collection: Latin
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The largest source of greenhouse gases in the coming decades will not be the US, Western Europe and Japan, but the developing economies of East Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. The coming eruption of carbon emissions from the poor world will dwarf any reductions in the North.
- Ross Gelbspan
Collection: Latin
Image of Josh Billings
There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
- Josh Billings
Collection: Latin
Image of Horace
Victory is by nature superb and insulting.
- Horace
Collection: Latin
Image of Brené Brown
Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is cor - the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart." Over time, this definition has changed, and today, we typically associate courage with heroic and brave deeds. But in my opinion, this definition fails to recognize the inner strength and level of commitment required for us to actually speak honestly and openly about who we are and about our experiences -- good and bad. Speaking from our hearts is what I think of as "ordinary courage.
- Brené Brown
Collection: Latin
Image of Ovid
The workmanship was better than the subject matter.
- Ovid
Collection: Latin
Image of Amos Oz
Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by Greek, by Latin, by Arabic, by Yiddish, by Latino, by German, by Russian, by English, I could go on and on. It's very much like English.
- Amos Oz
Collection: Latin
Image of Edward Snowden
Maybe boutique media, maybe people who are reading papers and talking to academics and whatnot, maybe they understand, because they're high-information. But a lot of people are still unaware that I never intended to end up in Russia. They're not aware that journalists were live-tweeting pictures of my seat on the flight to Latin America I wasn't able to board because the US government revoked my passport.
- Edward Snowden
Collection: Latin
Image of Bruce Springsteen
The Catholic religion at the time was much darker and more mysterious. The entire mass was in Latin. The church was - if you go to my church now, it's incredibly bright inside. But at - when I was young, it was very dark inside. And it was just the difference in the way that they've painted it since I've gone there. And it strives for a very different and welcoming spirit.
- Bruce Springsteen
Collection: Latin
Image of Isaac Newton
What the Latins have done in this text (1 John v, 7) the Greeks have done to Paul (1 Tim. iii, 16). They now read, "Great is the mystery of godliness; God manifest in the flesh"; whereas all the churches for the first four or five hundred years, and the authors of all the ancient versions, Jerome as well as the rest, read, "Great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifest in the flesh." Our English version makes it yet a little stronger. It reads, "Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh."
- Isaac Newton
Collection: Latin
Image of Gena Showalter
pretty please, with a cherry on top of me!
- Gena Showalter
Collection: Latin
Image of Kwame Nkrumah
The fortunes of the African revolution are closely linked with the world-wide struggle against imperialism. It does not matter where the battle erupts, be it in Africa, Asia or Latin America, the master-mind and master-hand at work are the same. The oppressed and exploited people are striving for their freedom against exploitation and suppression. Ghana must not, Ghana cannot be neutral in the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor.
- Kwame Nkrumah
Collection: Latin
Image of Keanu Reeves
I was hopeless at high school - I failed everything but Latin.
- Keanu Reeves
Collection: Latin
Image of Oscar de la Renta
My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, 'That's what I am'
- Oscar de la Renta
Collection: Latin
Image of Steven Pinker
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much sense as forcing modern residents of England to wear laurels and togas.
- Steven Pinker
Collection: Latin
Image of Robert Greene
I'll probably take the prize for the most irrelevant degree. Although some of the things now where they study, you know: "post feministic colonial film theory" - those kind of majors, yeah, that's probably worse. But I was, you know, classics, Greek and Latin, like what's more irrelevant than dead languages, you know?
- Robert Greene
Collection: Latin
Image of Horace
Capture the day, put minimum trust on tomorrow.
- Horace
Collection: Latin
Image of Henry David Thoreau
It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised out of the trivialness of the street, to be perpetual suggestions and provocations. It is not in vain that the farmer remembers and repeats the few Latin words which he has heard.
- Henry David Thoreau
Collection: Latin
Image of Michael Scott
but do i need to say anything?" sophie asked. "do i need to learn any words?" "like what?" saint-germain said. "well, when you lit up the eiffel tower, you said something that sounded like eggness" "ignis" the count said. "latin for fire. no, you don't need to say anything." "then why did you do it, then?" sophie asked. saint-germain grinned. "i just thought it sounded cool.
- Michael Scott
Collection: Latin
Image of Horace
Blend a little folly with thy worldly plans: it is delightful to give loose on a proper occasion.
- Horace
Collection: Latin
Image of James Boswell
Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.
- James Boswell
Collection: Latin
Image of Arundhati Roy
It's all a play. Hiroshima and Nagasaki happen, there are hundreds of thousands of dead, and the curtain comes down, and that's the end of that. Then Korea happens. Vietnam happens, all that happened in Latin America happens. And every now and then, this curtain comes down and history begins anew. New moralities and new indignations are manufactured...in a disappeared history.
- Arundhati Roy
Collection: Latin
Image of Horace
I was what you are, you will be what I am.
- Horace
Collection: Latin
Image of Plautus
He whom the Gods love dies young.
- Plautus
Collection: Latin
Image of Horace
There is a middle ground in things.
- Horace
Collection: Latin
Image of Gore Vidal
The Americans only like things they can label, even if it kills them. Think of those poor Latin American writers. Some of them are very good. But the "magical realism" label has absolutely ruined them. The critics are like tourists who return from a trip saying they've "done" Machu Picchu: "Okay, we've done magical realism," so now we can throw it out.
- Gore Vidal
Collection: Latin
Image of Horace
Don't waste the opportunity.
- Horace
Collection: Latin
Image of Jim Butcher
A succubus on the set. Strike that, the health-conscious kid sister made it two… succubuses. Succubusees? Succubi? Stupid Latin correspondence course.
- Jim Butcher
Collection: Latin
Image of Leo Tolstoy
Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).
- Leo Tolstoy
Collection: Latin
Image of Amos Oz
I work in Hebrew. Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages. Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by Greek, by Latin, by Arabic, by Yiddish, by Latino, by German, by Russian, by English, I could go on and on. It's very much like English. The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages, German, Scandinavian languages. Every language has influences and is an influence.
- Amos Oz
Collection: Latin
Image of Frances Moore Lappé
I like to think of power back in its Latin root, its meaning comes from posse - to be able.
- Frances Moore Lappé
Collection: Latin
Image of Stephen R. Lawhead
Alea iacta est. The die has been cast.
- Stephen R. Lawhead
Collection: Latin
Image of Rafael Nadal
I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers...
- Rafael Nadal
Collection: Latin
Image of Gore Vidal
The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical. It is no accident that the word has now been totally demonized.
- Gore Vidal
Collection: Latin
Image of Catherynne M. Valente
It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.
- Catherynne M. Valente
Collection: Latin
Image of Chris Hardwick
When I was in grade school I was into chess club, Latin club, D&D, computer camp - everything that made vaginas go away.
- Chris Hardwick
Collection: Latin
Image of Edward Snowden
When it comes to cyber conflicts between, say, America and China or even a Middle Eastern nation, an African nation, a Latin American nation, a European nation, we have more to lose.
- Edward Snowden
Collection: Latin
Image of Horace
No master can make me swear blind obedience.
- Horace
Collection: Latin