Quotes by mexican authors

The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others. Carlos Fuentes

Good Understanding Others States Bad Itself Very United United States

Work is what saves you. Carlos Fuentes

Work You Saves

I have no literary fears. Carlos Fuentes

Fears Literary

I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death. Carlos Fuentes

I love having critics for breakfast. Carlos Fuentes

Love Breakfast Critics Having

Cuba needs a dose of perestroika. Carlos Fuentes

Needs Cuba Dose

Don't classify me, read me. Carlos Fuentes

Me Classify Read

I'm a writer, not a genre. Carlos Fuentes

Writer Genre

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family. Carlos Fuentes

Good Family Happy Having Had Knit Closely Fortune Good Fortune

The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century. Carlos Fuentes

Latin Latin America States Dictatorships America Century Much United United States

The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations. Carlos Salinas de Gortari

Today Peace World World Peace Valid Frames Danger Threat Longer Force Sought Reference Sovereign Nations Ends Achieving Use

Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling. Carlos Santana

Love Man First Raw Stuff First Love First Thing Said Oh The First Thing Just Blues Where Then Rebelling Thing Started Honest

When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden. Carlos Santana

Spiritual You Garden Smell Flower Baby Like Smells Lilies Another Soup Chicken Which Flesh Things Two

The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold. Carlos Santana

Devil Like Gold Mud Separates

I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me. Carlos Santana

Me Wind Kind Like Know Rock Rock-N-Roll Up Walking Person Hits Roll Just Artists Gonna Appeal Many Play

Stay in your heart. Carlos Santana

Heart Stay Your

I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels. Carlos Santana

Day You Every Day Wake Up Rest Every Lyrical Background Okay Laurels Simplistic Been Wake Up Very Accused Just Transcend Being Blues Which Your Ever Player

I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa. Carlos Santana

Time Mother King Everybody Eye Martin Martin Luther Martin Luther King Marvin Gaye Davis Chavez Coltrane Mother Teresa Malcolm Malcolm X Left Up Same Same Time Sixties Grew Miles Miles Davis Watching Luther

I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody. Carlos Santana

Me People Guitar Long Enough Took Melody Tell Would Would-Be Nevertheless Come Know Singer Conclusion Lot Get Where Decided Now Why Here Album Playing Albums

KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask. Carlos Santana

Entertainment Kiss Mask Musician Vegas Las Vegas Need

You need to support human development and human capital as much as possible. And we've had 25 years of programs, great programs. We supported 125,000 surgeries. We fund 15,000 scholarships every year for college and higher education. We gave bicycles for rural areas. We gave laptops. Carlos Slim

Education Great You College Higher Education Year Every Programs Gave Possible Rural Rural Areas Area Higher Had Scholarships Support Supported Development Years Human Human Development Capital Much Laptops Fund Need