--- title: "2 Rosario Morales Quotes - Famous Poet" description: "Puerto Rican writer and poet... | Rosario Morales was a Puerto Rican author and poet. She is best known for her book Getting Home Alive which she co-aut..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b026/author-rosario-morales-101306.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Rosario Morales](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b026/author-rosario-morales-101306.jpg) # Rosario Morales (1930–2011) Poet **2** quotes in **10** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Rosario Morales was a poet. ## Quick Facts About Rosario Morales Born January 1, 1930 Died March 23, 2011 Profession Poet ## About Rosario Morales Puerto Rican writer and poet... \| Rosario Morales was a Puerto Rican author and poet. She is best known for her book Getting Home Alive which she co-authored with her daughter Aurora Levins Morales in 1986. She was also significant within the Latina feminist movement and the Communist Party. She describes her own complicated identit ## Quotes by Rosario Morales > [“I am political in spite of myself. I don't want to do the things I know I have to do, don't want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosario-morales/i-am-political-in-spite-of-myself-i-don-t-want-to-do-the-things-i/) [Rosario Morales](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosario-morales/) [Activism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/activism/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a4/rosario-morales-101306_activism_i-am-political-in-spite-of-myself-i-don_311843.jpg) > [“How do you mourn endless numbers of people in endless numbers of places? Is there a form for it, a requisite time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosario-morales/how-do-you-mourn-endless-numbers-of-people-in-endless-numbers-of/) [Rosario Morales](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosario-morales/) [Grief](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/grief/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ced/rosario-morales-101306_grief_how-do-you-mourn-endless-numbers-of-peop_1187515.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosario-morales/#itemlist", "name": "Rosario Morales Quotes", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I am political in spite of myself. I don't want to do the things I know I have to do, don't want to expose myself to disapproval, to retribution, don't want to go to meetings and demonstrations, distribute leaflets, don't want to ask people for signatures, for money. 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