"There is a lot of people just shaking their heads and wondering, what was really behind this meeting [of Donald Trump and Enrique Pena] as far as from the president of Mexico."

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Jose Diaz-Balart

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“The nation as the horizon of an identity that you want to come into being as a fundamental absence of something that is compromised, something that needs to be rescued or made - these matters preoccupy the third world writer. It is seductive for a Marxist understanding of literary practice and production in the sense that it says that material culture determines literary output.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“Art has to offer something other than stylized despair.”

Source : Ben Lerner (2014). “10:04”, p.69, Granta Books
“O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Where, indeed. Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the aftermath of some relative's funeral, has ruefully concluded that the victory has been won hands down by a funeral establishment - in disastrously unequal battle.”

Source : Jessica Mitford (2011). “The American Way of Death Revisited”, p.14, Vintage
“Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.”
“We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.”

Source : "Shirin 'Ebadi - Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate". Interview to Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, www.memri.org. October 24, 2003.
“Despite all of the civil rights gains of the past several decades, when it comes to economic opportunity, African Americans and Latinos still experience far more unemployment than do whites and Asians, average wages are lower, and household wealth is lower. A smaller percentage of African Americans and Latinos attend, and complete, college, than is the case with whites and Asians, and a higher percentage end up in prison. All of these are indicators of massive disparities in opportunity, and these disparities are mirrored in poverty data.”
“Well, with all the experiences I have had, I would say the most disappointing ones are the ones when I have not taken enough.”

Source : Interview with Elizabeth Gips, www.tripzine.com. May 1, 2001.
“Only poetry can address grief.”

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