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[Cabeza de Vaca] ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else.
Cuando llega la hora, llega la hora. A woman's gotta do what a woman's gotta do and all that crap.
Do work that matters. Vale la pena
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
FOR SONIA SANCHEZ
Para ser inteligente, hay que empezar desde chica.
To be intelligent, one must start young.
It's an honor to represent a Latin culture.
Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa."
"What does it mean?"
"You're beautiful.
Muy Peligroso!" Bernie's choices had become as limited as the Taco Bell menu. Reason and blood had left the building, heading south, faster than reprobates to Florida." - Shark Fin Soup 2015
Patria o muerte! Motherland or death! Cuba si, yanqui no!
CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do "me"?
Mr. Cuervo and I - and all of his Mexican cousins are no longer on speaking terms
Let the punishment be equal with the offence.
[Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]
Cuerdos, he says. They're sane.
In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.
Que bonito es el mundo; Lastima es que yo me muera." "How beautiful is the world; It's a pity that I must die.
In hoc signo vinces
So how do we get from there to a pattern of experience that can stand for the whole of postcolonial Latin America? Ah, our para dox again. The solution, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars but in ourselves.
From no place can you exclude the fates.
[Lat., Nullo fata loco possis excludere.]
La Closerie, in Ansouis.
SCARAMOUCHE Rafael
Horas non numero nisi serenas,' 'I count - no - hours but - unclouded ones,
Now drown care in wine.
[Lat., Nunc vino pellite curas.]
Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.
Those very superficial sensualists and profligates who lead the dance of Latin decadence have not seen, among their dancing girls and their pennies, that the disappearance of symbols was a precursor to the ruin of a people; communities only have abstract reasons for existing...
Dattebayo! (Do you get what I am saying?!)
Even here, you can ask the wrong questions and speak the wrong truths, Postulants. Here ends today's lesson. Tota est scientia. Their
N OthI n g can s urPas s the m y SteR y of s tilLnes s
Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.
Let the die be cast.
[Lat., Jacta alea esto; or, jacta esa alea.)
We've got a lot of pressure going. This is for my Latin counterpart.
What happens in Cabo stays in Cabo
Anyway Ri Ri what rhymes wit your name really? Money got you vacationing in Chile
Cucullus non facit monachum; that's as much to say, as I wear not motley in my brain.
She was one of those golden mulatas that French-speaking Caribbeans call chabines, that my boys call chicas de oro; she had snarled, apocalyptic hair, copper eyes, and was one whiteskinned relative away from jaba.
The gods my protectors.
[Lat., Di me tuentur.]
Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
I spit upon the dancers painted by Degas. I spit upon their short bodies, their stiff stays, their toes whereupon they spin like peg-tops, above all upon that chambermaid face. They might have looked timeless, Remeses the Great, but not the chambermaid, that old maid history. I spit! I spit! I spit!
Nosotros somos paisanos. We are fellow countrymen. We come from the same soil.
Cuchi, cuchi, cuchi - but the insane didn't need a reason.
You burros have calculus in your blood.
Fight with me again and let us prove that we will keep what is ours! - Corin
That one time I had ma Latina texture going on.. Or just.. everyday.
I understand Spanish better than I speak it.
The greatest contribution to the Mexican table imaginable
My friend Mercedes Pena made me get in touch with my emotions just before I had a breast cut off. Just as I suspected, they were awful. "How do you Latinas do this all the time in touch with your emotions?" I asked her. "That's why we take siestas," she replied.
A just fortune awaits the deserving.
[Lat., Fors aequa merentes
Respicit.]
Like most Latinas, I'm not afraid to speak my mind.
I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican.
In laboring to be concise, I become obscure.
[Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]
Abracadabra, moron.
FIESTA OR DEATH!!!
Manuel Corpas is long and lean-the opposite of Olmedo Saenz.
Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)
Vaca Diez, do not destroy our country!
Vitanda est improba siren desidia. (One must avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.)
Raymond collected expressions. He repeated them in experimental accents, as if learning a tune. He sounded like an Eighteenth Street Mexican when he said cuate, like a Logan Square cubano when he said comemierda.
I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian.
Oh dios mio, she makes me burn, she makes me need. She is etching herself into mi alma
jose jaliopinio on a stick" do you like bmw's (big mexican weman)
Si vas a volverte loco, vuelve te solo
When I think of my Latina side, I imagine family barbecues with carne asada, rice, beans, tortillas and a jalapeno on my plate along with 'Vicente Fernandez' blaring out the speakers. Spicy food. Salsa. Tamales. Family.
The venal herd.
[Lat., Venale pecus.]
Chus Martinez is a transsexual collective phantom. Anybody can be Chus Martinez!
Fine words dresse ill deedes.
Can you speak Espanol?"
"Si."
"I think you're lying."
"What difference does it make? All I want is warm sunshine and sand between my toes.
The march to the center of Caracas will not be permitted. I will use a hard hand against fascism and intolerance. I declare it. If they want to overthrow me, come and get me. Here I am, with the people and the armed forces.
The conquistadors and their followers were very rough people, and they were fixated on gold and silver. They were oblivious to the astonishing achievements of the Inca civilisation.
Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
[Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.]
E canchis amnia.
Everything from shells.
As everybody in the Andes knows, when the devil comes to work his evil on earth he sometimes takes the shape of a limping gringo stranger. And
Chicharito must have icicles flowing through his veins
Gringos! They have copied us again
Vade Mecum
I want the scissors to be sharp
and the table perfectly level
when you cut me out of my life
and paste me in that book you always carry.
In the books by Ruy-Sanchez we find again the erotic conviction that allows us to read with all the skin. The erotic, in his narratives is not a subject or a phrase, it is the clay of what they are made. In his novels every experience, trivial or extraordinary, breaths through the erotic.
I will defend the peso like a dog!
Guess I'm going to fade into Bolivian.
Un asno viejo sabe mas que un potro. (An old ass knows more than an old colt.)-A Wrinkle in Time
Estene aleera hesaad de viren aneda. And now, you are forever mine.
Lat, urbes constituit aetas: hora dissolvit: momento fit cinis: diu sylva.
An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them. In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.
When you're speaking Spanish, you're thinking in a different way.
Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar.
(Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks.)
FRONTA NULLA FIDES. Place no trust in appearances.
You rob time, Fernando. How arrogant you are, taking an evening like this one as though it were some sour cherry, spitting half its flesh into the dirt. Every time you pitch yourself back into the past, you lose time. Have you so much of it to spare, my love?
You can't push me away, mio cuore. You can't!
Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.
(Mountains are in labour, a ridiculous mouse will be born)
Colombians have been dealing with cocaine since your ancestors were running around Ireland with their bodies painted blue," Kingsley
The truth about the Costa del Sol is that what endures, what is worthwhile, is what is Spanish.
Video et taceo,' he said
I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. The stylings of my words are immodest, but it's the truth.
I came to see a Latino wedding, and I expect to see one," I tell him.
"And here I thought you were comin' to be with me."
"You've got a big ego, Fuentes."
"That's not all I've got." He backs me against my car, his breath warming my neck more than the midday sun.
...that fucker defines cuntishness.
I listen
as I eat the street for supper,
listen to the pain songs
of Mexico.
Flashes of returning
come with the birds.
you curdled clot of whores piss
I stand by whatever I read from Univision.
Pursuits become habits.
[Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]
Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento."
(roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")
Me Tarz-tosterone; You Estro-Jane
The bullfight is a Spanish institution; it has not existed because of the foreigners and tourists, but always in spite of them and any step to modify it to secure their approval, which it will never have, is a step towards its complete suppression.
(Just so you know, I practice Spanish watching Dora the Explorer and playing GTA, so I know how to say backpack, whore, and weed. I hope you're impressed.)