Esmeralda Santiago Quotes

• I learned you pay for your happiness. That's why I don't expect to be happy all the time. I'd rather be surprised by one moment every so often to remind me that joy is possible, even if I have to pay for it later.

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  Joy, Pay, Moments

  Esmeralda Santiago (2011). “Conquistadora”, p.38, Vintage

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• Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.

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  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

  Esmeralda Santiago (2006). “When I was Puerto Rican”, p.243, Da Capo Press

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• if you don't exist in the arts of a culture, you're invisible. The arts are what express the soul of who we are and that expresses our humanity.

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  Art, Soul, Humanity

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• How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unkown?

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  Motivational, Change, Embrace

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• For me, the person I was becoming when we left was erased, and another one was created.

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  Becoming, Persons, Left

  Esmeralda Santiago (2006). “When I was Puerto Rican”, p.209, Da Capo Press

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• Another train will come. Why rush? Why worry? Why go crazy? Another train will come. And sure enough, another train going my way was pulling into the station. My bad mood evaporated. I entered the car smiling, certain that there would be more missed trains in my life, more closed doors in my face, but there would always be another train rumbling down the tracks in my direction.

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  Crazy, Doors, Worry

  Esmeralda Santiago (2009). “The Turkish Lover: A Memoir”, p.77, Da Capo Press

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• We're always going to have prejudices ... I don't think we can change society. You can only change individual by individual. And you can change yourself.

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  Thinking, Prejudice, Individual

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• People think [immigration] is only about the dollar, but it's so much more complex. This is a place where you can reinvent yourself. I don't know that you can do that anywhere else.

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  Thinking, People, Immigration

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• In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times.

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  Mother, Years, Twenties

  Esmeralda Santiago (2012). “Almost a Woman: A Memoir”, p.6, Da Capo Press

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• What doesn't kill you, makes you fat.

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  Trust No One, Inspirational Tattoo, Stronger

  Esmeralda Santiago (2006). “When I was Puerto Rican”, p.63, Da Capo Press

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