Spanglish Quote by Ed Morales

“In Living in Spanglish I posit the coming of existence of this forwars-looking race that obliterates all races, stripping away Vasaconelos's petty resentment of…

— Ed Morales

“Conrad,Nabokov, Naipaul - these are writers known for having managed to migrate between languages, cultures, countries, continents, even civilizations. Their imaginations were fed by…

— Orhan Pamuk

“It is a fake, but a good fake. Turkey is the land of the masterful fake. But it is far far from that hateful…

— Ian McDonald

“There ́s a metaphor which I love: living like a drawing compass. As you know, one leg of the compass is static, rooted in…

— Elif Shafak

“Had I been told Istanbul used to be a poorer, smaller and happier city, I might not have believed it, but that’s what my…

— Orhan Pamuk

“It had just hit her why and how people could fall in love with Istanbul, in spite of all the sorrow it might cause…

— Elif Shafak

“From the first, Istanbul had given him the impression of a town where, with the night, horror creeps out of the stones. It seemed…

— Ian Fleming

“I am not african. Africa is in me, but I cannot return. I am not taina. Taino is in me, but there is no…

— Aurora Levins Morales

“Man, sometimes you are clueless. You don’t even see what’s happening.” He perched himself on the arm of the couch so he could look…

— Michael Grant

It was in Cihangir that i first learned Istanbul was not an anonymous multitude of walled-in lives - a jungle of apartments where no…

— Orhan Pamuk

“It’s another post-EU incongruity. Spas are sissy, indulgent, European. Hamams are authentic and Turkish.”

— Ian McDonald

“I’m as constant as Constantinople. Now that’s some Istanbul shit.”

— Jarod Kintz