#spanish

The raven of Edgar Allan Poe has a halo that he extinguishes from time to time ("Spanish Generosity") ↗

— Max Jacob

#the-raven #spanish

I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#citizen #citizenship #country #i #i love

After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity. ↗

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

#ages #ethnicity #gave #i #instantly

I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii. ↗

— Tia Carrere

#descent #filipino #hawaii #i #raised

Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#because #english #feel #i #i feel

I am making sure, as the governor of a territory, that our kids speak fluent English. But having said that, I will tell my wife I love her in Spanish, and I will pray in Spanish, and no one from Washington should come down here and tell us how to go about it. ↗

— Luis Fortuno

#am #come #down #english #fluent

I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#always #am #american #i #i am

There is a bright spot or two for the Spaniards. French toast has become freedom toast on the Air Force One breakfast menu, but the Spanish omelet is still a Spanish omelet. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#air force #become #breakfast #bright #force

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#being #exquisitely #genius #hence #humour

Freedom, or individual liberty, was a basic premise of the Spanish anarchist tradition. "Individual sovereignty" is a prime tenet of most anarchist writing; the free development of one' s individual potential is one of the basic "rights" to which all humans are born. Yet Spanish anarchists were firmly rooted in the communalist-anarchist tradition. For them, freedom was fundamentally a social product: the fullest expression of individuality and of creativity can be achieved only in and through community. As Carmen Conde (a teacher who was also active in Mujeres Libres) wrote, describing the relationship of individuality and community: "I and my truth; I and my faith ... And I for you, but without ever ceasing to be me, so that you can always be you. Because I don' t exist without your existence, but my existence is also indispensable to yours. ↗

— Martha A. Ackelsberg

#feminism #spain #spanish-anarchists #faith