Black and white Quote by Cristina Garcia

“The war that killed my grandfather and great-uncles and thousands of other blacks is only a footnote in our history books.”

— Cristina García

“I become convinced that you have to live in the world to say anything meaningful about it.”

— Cristina García

“To live your life even half right seems extraordinary.”

— Cristina Garcia

“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 you double'--I…

— Cristina Garcia

“Would you mind taking off your shirt?”

— Cristina Garcia

I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea’s consoling silence.

— Cristina Garcia

“Felicia stayed on the fringe of life because it was free of everyday malice. It was more dignified there.”

— Cristina García

Nobody is ready for death. If you ask Joe Blow on the street, he aint gonna tell you he thinks he'll live forever. But…

— Cristina Garcia

“She ponders the transmigrations from southern latitudes. the millions moving north. What happens to their languages? The warm burial grounds they leave behind? What…

— Cristina García

“Down the street, the trees are imprisoned equidistantly in square plots of dirt. Everything else is concrete. Lourdes remembers reading somewhere about how Dutch…

— Cristina Garcia

“For many years in Cuba, nobody spoke of the problem between blacks and whites. It was considered too disagreeable to discuss. But my father…

— Cristina García

“I imagine these men sitting in fashion control centers around the world thinking of new ways to torture women, new ways to make them…

— Cristina Garcia