"Africa must take the first steps into modernity on its own. There must be a change in mentality. We have to stop perceiving ourselves as beggars."

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Death is the twin of love and mother of us all, she struggles equally for men and women and never accepts differences of caste or class. It's death that quickens us and brings us forth on sheets of love, clasped between sleep and wakefulness and barely breathing for a spell, and thus my death shall be like everybody else's death, as majestic and as pathetic as a king or a beggar's, neither more nor less.

— Rosario Ferre