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The suicide bomber is an explosion of a contradiction in its paradox, victim and victimizer, yin and yang, two sides of the coin, fire bomb and fire extinguisher, prosecutor and defendant, hangman and hanged.

— Giannina Braschi United States of Banana (2011)

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Nostalgia is a fruit with the pain of distance in its pit.

If you look for an identity you find inequality. If you look for similarities you separate one truth from another.

Liberty is not an option. It is a human right.

I have nothing against the smell of rot but something against what hides the smell of rot in the United States of America.

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When your heart is a party, solitude becomes crowded with memories.

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