Giannina Braschi famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

What is liberty? The measure of dignity.
-- Giannina Braschi

#Liberty #Dignity
Nativity is the enemy of prophecy.
-- Giannina Braschi

#Enemy #Prophecy
Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.
-- Giannina Braschi

#Envy #Metaphor #Democratic
If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.
-- Giannina Braschi

#Love #Children #Pain
I have nothing against the smell of rot but something against what hides the smell of rot in the United States of America.
-- Giannina Braschi

#Smell #America #United States
It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.
-- Giannina Braschi

#Beautiful #Art #Function
Ambulances always come with clouds of smoke. And then they disappear in a whistle. But what they bring is fear. Not freedom. Feardom is what they bring. And they bring fire and smoke. Oh, my nerves are bad tonight, yes, bad. I fear freedom. I, above all, fear the freedom that is above all feardom.
-- Giannina Braschi

#Freedom #Fire #Clouds
A baby is expected. A trip is expected. News is expected. Forgetfulness is expected. An invitation is expected. Hope is expected. But memories are not expected. They just come.
-- Giannina Braschi

#Baby #Memories #News
Only what is fated to die is capable of living. Only what dies lives.
-- Giannina Braschi

#Capable
Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.
-- Giannina Braschi

#War #America #Temples
Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.
-- Giannina Braschi

#Distance #Poetry #Way
I love hiccups and I love sneezes and I love blinks and I love belches and I love gluttons. I love hair. I love bears. For me, the round. For me, the world.
-- Giannina Braschi

#Life #Love Is #Hair
Questions don't change the truth. But they give it motion.
-- Giannina Braschi

#Truth #Giving

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