“When you made me into another, I left you with me.”
Cuando me hiciste otro, te dejé conmigo.
Voces (1943)
Source: When I Was Puerto Rican
“When you made me into another, I left you with me.”
Cuando me hiciste otro, te dejé conmigo.
Voces (1943)
Source: The Bridges of Madison County
“Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.”
“Clearly when the liberties are left unrestricted they collide with one another.”
Source: A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), Chapter IV, Section 32, p. 203
Toward an Activist Spirituality (2003)
Context: On some deep cosmic level, we are all one, and within us we each contain the potential for good and for destruction, for compassion and hate, for generosity and greed. But even if I acknowledge the full range of impulses within myself, that doesn't erase the differences between a person acting from compassion and love, and another choosing to act from hate and greed. Moreover, it doesn't erase my responsibility to challenge a system which furthers hate and greed. If I don't resist such a system, I am complicit in what it does. I join the perpetrators in oppressing the victims.
On growing up in England, having left Japan at age 5. Conversation with Lewis Burke Frumkes, The Writer http://www.writermag.com/, volume 114, number 5, May 2001, collected in Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro, p. 189 https://books.google.com/books?id=lvuteIrz7JUC&pg=PA189&dq=%22there+was+another+life+that+i+might+have+had,+but+I%E2%80%99m+having+this+one%22
On the writings that she favors in “Maylis de Kerangal by Jessica Moore” https://bombmagazine.org/articles/maylis-de-kerangal/ in Bomb Magazine (2015 Dec 15)