Portuguese Quotes - Page 4

• The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing, have seen their territory invaded by a new kind of slave: the Portuguese.

  Che Guevara

  Race, Example, Territory

  Che Guevara (2013). “The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey”, Ocean Press

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• She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Men, Class

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.

  Nelly Furtado

  Heritage, Brazil, Portugal

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• My homeland is the portuguese language.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Language, Homeland

  "A Factless Autobiography" by Fernando Pessoa, translated by Richard Zenith, Lisbon, (p. 230), 2006.

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• Pedro Teixeira, the great Portuguese merchant-adventurer, wrote a beautiful description of a coffeehouse with windows overlooking the Tigris and the ruins of old Baghdad. That was in 1604, and he's visiting the same street that I write about in the book, named after Abu Nuwas, though it wasn't called that back then.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Beautiful, Book, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am white and my main characters are white, outsiders at sea in the "Dark Continent."

  Jon Weisman

  Real, Writing, Character

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I speak English, Portuguese, and French. One day I'd love to learn Italian.

  Izabel Goulart

  Italian, Speak English, One Day

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