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Let's get one thing straight. Puerto Rico was parda, negra, mulata, mestiza. Not a country of Spaniards at all. We outnumbered them, year after year.
Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of Puertorriquenas (1997)
Not one of those books that ignore us could have been written without our shopping, baking, mending, ironing, typing, making coffee, comforting. Without our caring for the children, minding the store, getting in the crop, making their businesses pay. This is our story, and the truth of our lives will overthrow them.
Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of Puertorriquenas (1997)