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For me, writing a poem means enormous enjoyment that reaches its culmination when the poem appears in print.

— Nancy Morejón Interview (2002)

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We also need to see black characters somewhere other than in films about slavery. We badly need something more contemporary and more pertinent.

Interview in A Contemporary Cuba Reader: Reinventing the Revolution (2007)

The revolution opened doors for us and allowed an enormous social mobility. Many walls that blocked communication were demolished, and taboos were cast out.

Interview in A Contemporary Cuba Reader: Reinventing the Revolution (2007)

Very often people abroad see us talking about our free education as some sort of empty political slogan but in fact it is a reality and a priority.

Interview in A Contemporary Cuba Reader: Reinventing the Revolution (2007)

The purpose of any piece of writing is its existence before a reader’s eyes.

Interview (2002)

one of its [society's] most sinister creatures: the practice of racial discrimination, a lever that always heightens racial prejudice. Both creatures make up racism.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

Strength of creative writing lies in the skill of handling words and articulating artistic expression of feelings.”

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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Robert Benchley

Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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