"Some time in that period also I discovered the writing of Nicolás Guillén from Cuba and there was a permission to wri…"

"For many years I have said, following the tradition of Nicolás Guillén, Fernando Ortiz and Alejo Carpentier, that who…"

"Nicolás Guillén brought an Afro-Cuban essence into poems that still enable us to hear the drumbeat of cultures unbrok…"

"This, in a way, would be exceeding odd And almost justify man’s ways to God— If, by the healing of these hills, the b…"

"The question is often asked, "What do women want?" We want men "to stand out of our sunshine"; that is all."

"The New Woman is she who had discovered herself, not relatively as mother, wife, sister, but absolutely...she recogni…"

"...I would rather have this new woman - even in her occasional perversity, exaggeration, and revolt - than the female…"

"We want to grow as flowers of the field are permitted to grow, whether they be of male or female form. We want to dev…"

"...The political head of this colony says women do not want the removal of their disabilities. I can believe that a f…"

"I’m telling you that I hate white people."