I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire
Eduardo GaleanoI am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.
Eduardo GaleanoThe tree of life knows that, whatever happens, the warm music spinning around it will never stop. However much death may come, however much blood may flow, the music will dance men and women as long as the air breaths them and the land plows and loves them.
Eduardo GaleanoEach person shines with his or her own light. No two flames are alike. There are big flames and little flames, flames of every color. Some peopleโs flames are so still they donโt even flicker in the wind, while others have wild flames that fill the air with sparks. Some foolish flames neither burn nor shed light, but others blaze with life so fiercely that you canโt look at them without blinking, and if you approach you shine in the fire.
Eduardo Galeano