"Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are."

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Source : Esmeralda Santiago (2006). “When I was Puerto Rican”, p.243, Da Capo Press

Esmeralda Santiago

#Walks Quotes #Who You Are Quotes

“I found it to be kind of ironic, because Iâ€™m white, therefore Iâ€™m appropriating culture, but then Eminem won it - whoâ€™s white and won it many times - and they didnâ€™t seem to say anything about that. I suspect it was just because they dislike me.”
“Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.”
“I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever.”
“Doctors may have told you there is no hope for you medically, but you can always find supernatural HOPE from God's Word.”
“One of the elementary rules of nature is that, in the absence of a law prohibiting an event or phenomenon, it is bound to occur with some degree of probability. To put it simply and crudely: Anything that can happen does happen.”
“Love must wait; it must break oneâ€™s bones.”
“I've done stuff to pay my dues and that's what actors are supposed to do, because I was a really bad actor when I was 18 or 20.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.”

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