Carolina Maria de Jesus Quotes

• 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 favela is the back yard where they throw the garbage.

  Carolina María de Jesús

  Garden, Cities, Office

  Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

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• somos esclavos del coste de la vida.

  Carolina María de Jesús

  Cost Of Living, Cost, Poverty

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

  Carolina María de Jesús

  Children, Thinking, Gone

  Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

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• I adore my black skin and my kinky hair. The Negro hair is more educated than the white man's hair. Because with Negro hair, where you put it, it stays. It's obedient. The hair of the white, just give one quick movement, and it's out of place. It won't obey. If reincarnation exists I want to come back black.

  Carolina María de Jesús

  Men, White Man, Hair

  Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

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• When I am in the city I have the impression that I am in a living room with crystal chandeliers, rugs of velvet, and satin cushions. And when I'm in the favela I have the impression that I'm a useless object, destined to be forever in a garbage dump.

  Carolina María de Jesús

  Cities, Forever, Useless

  Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

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• [On Brazil:] In our country everything is weakening. The money is weak. Democracy is weak and the politicians are very weak. Everything that is weak dies one day.

  Carolina María de Jesús

  Country, One Day, Democracy

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• 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, until now, has been black. As black as my skin. Black as the garbage dump where I live.

  Carolina María de Jesús

  Life, Book, Black

  Carolina Maria De Jesus (1990). “Beyond All Pity”

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

  Carolina María de Jesús

  Death, Way, Born

  Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

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• The book is man's best invention so far.

  Carolina María de Jesús

  Book, Men, Invention

  Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

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

  Carolina María de Jesús

  People, Faces, Poet

  Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

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

  Carolina María de Jesús

  Beautiful, Drama, Eating

  Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

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• A child is the root of the heart.

  Carolina María de Jesús

  Children, Heart, Roots

  Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

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