The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“Each of us carries his Mexico and his United States within him, a dark and bloody frontier we dare to cross only… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share
Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“Because it’s a fucking disaster to be creative when you know you’re not Mozart or Keats. Dammit, I got tired of scratching around in my past. There’s nothing in me to justify the pretension of creativity. This came before anything, before you, before Raquel, this is a matter of my own emptiness, my awareness of my own limits, maybe my… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share
In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Mexico is a very complex, mysterious country. I will never understand it fully, and that's why I write so much about it, in order… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“You will have given another moment to the moment you are living and to the moments you are going to live; you have perverted… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
