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Every four years the citizens of Liberty Island vote for Wishy-Washy. They can choose between mashed potato, french fries, or baked potato. But any way you serve it, it’s all the same potato.

— Giannina Braschi the Puerto Rican novel 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.

United States of Banana (2011)

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

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