Armando Gonzalez

“I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”
― T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

“Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way”
― Marcel Proust

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man