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Quotes from Foreword to A Pan-American Life: Selected Poetry and Prose of Muna Lee — Aurora Levins Morales

born 1954 Puerto Rico

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There is nothing as sustaining as legacy, as fore-mothers on whose lives we can build.

Foreword to A Pan-American Life: Selected Poetry and Prose of Muna Lee (2004)

To listen to the other is the beginning of possibility.

Foreword to A Pan-American Life: Selected Poetry and Prose of Muna Lee (2004)

I grew up within a legacy of joyous border crossings, of knowing we have the right to love anyone, to learn any language and speak it, to offer ourselves wherever we choose.

Foreword to A Pan-American Life: Selected Poetry and Prose of Muna Lee (2004)

There are people who move into the cultures of others with such grace and respect that the friction of foreignness virtually disappears, who can un-self-consciously love the unfamiliar as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

Foreword to A Pan-American Life: Selected Poetry and Prose of Muna Lee (2004)

I hope that future generations of women writers will have lives so much easier than mine that they will instantly perceive barbarities of my situation I don't see, because I can't imagine their absence.

Foreword to A Pan-American Life: Selected Poetry and Prose of Muna Lee (2004)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Aurora Levins Morales (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.