“The war that killed my grandfather and great-uncles and thousands of other blacks is only a footnote in our history books.” — Cristina García Black history Copy Share Image
“I become convinced that you have to live in the world to say anything meaningful about it.” — Cristina García Meaningful Copy Share Image
“Jan-Peter offered to teach me the language of Amsterdam's red light district. ...But after his first phrase--'Using the back door will cost… — Cristina Garcia Red light Copy Share Image
I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea’s consoling silence. — Cristina Garcia Consoling Copy Share Image
“Felicia stayed on the fringe of life because it was free of everyday malice. It was more dignified there.” — Cristina García Life Copy Share Image
Nobody is ready for death. If you ask Joe Blow on the street, he aint gonna tell you he thinks he'll live… — Cristina Garcia Believe Copy Share Image
“She ponders the transmigrations from southern latitudes. the millions moving north. What happens to their languages? The warm burial grounds they leave… — Cristina García Copy Share Image
“Down the street, the trees are imprisoned equidistantly in square plots of dirt. Everything else is concrete. Lourdes remembers reading somewhere about… — Cristina Garcia East coast Copy Share Image
“For many years in Cuba, nobody spoke of the problem between blacks and whites. It was considered too disagreeable to discuss. But… — Cristina García Cuba Copy Share Image
“I imagine these men sitting in fashion control centers around the world thinking of new ways to torture women, new ways to… — Cristina Garcia Around the world Copy Share Image
“...No small amount of schadenfreude. Do you know what that means?" "Dad, it's the lifeline of gossip. Of course I know what… — Cristina Garcia Copy Share Image
You have to live in the world to say anything meaningful about it. — Cristina Garcia Meaningful Copy Share Image
“Poetry by its very nature is subversive . . . It turns words inside out, confounds meaning, changes black and white to… — Cristina Garcia Black and white Copy Share Image
“For me, the sea was a great comfort, Pilar. But it made my children restless. It exists now so we can call… — Cristina García Caribbean Copy Share Image
“Those who speak know nothing. Those who know are silent.” — Cristina Garcia Lao tzu Copy Share Image
“Papi, I don't know what to do anymore." Lourdes begins to cry. "No matter what I do, Pilar hates me." "Pilar doesn't… — Cristina García Daughter Copy Share Image
“It seemed to him that life's true tragedy was to lift up one's voice among the living and be met with indifference.” — Cristina Garcia Garcia Copy Share Image
“Aura is convinced that the entire country has succumbed to a collective amnesia. This is what happened in a society, where no… — Cristina Garcia Grow Old Copy Share Image
“We speak in Spanish when we make love. English seems an impossible language for intimacy.” — Cristina García Cuba Copy Share Image
You never knew what to expect with Ingrid. One minute she could be sawing the locks off Pierpont's freezers; the next, providing… — Cristina Garcia Bird Copy Share Image
“That we can see and understand everything just as well alive as dead, only when we're alive we don't have the time,… — Cristina García Peace Copy Share Image
“I resent the hell out of the politicians and generals who force events on us that structure our lives, that dictate the… — Cristina García Cuba Copy Share Image
Before you know it you'll be my age telling your own granddaughter the story of your life and you wanna make it… — Cristina Garcia Able Copy Share Image
