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To write meant to always be awake, willing to take risks, full of magic and happiness, eager to create and undo, because life was that way, like words.

— Marjorie Agosín

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The search for identity and belonging is also a motif for the human condition of the twentieth century-a century defined by displacements and migrations.

Forward to Miriam's Daughters: Jewish Latin American Women Poets (2000)

To write is also to bear witness, to resist the dehumanization of the world, and to tell and reveal.

Invisible Dreamer: Memory, Judaism & Human Rights (2002)

Since the earliest history, poetry and the spoken word have been the pulse of human civilization.

Invisible Dreamer: Memory, Judaism & Human Rights (2002)

Books unite people and books in translation are the thresholds of other cultures, invitations to travel and to know others.

Invisible Dreamer: Memory, Judaism & Human Rights (2002)

Home is understanding and being understood.

Invisible Dreamer: Memory, Judaism & Human Rights (2002)

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