Top 12 Quotes by Carolina Maria de Jesus

I classify Sao Paolo this way: The Governor's Palace is the living room. The mayor's office is the dining room and the city is the garden. And the favela is the back yard where they throw the garbage.

I classify Sao Paolo this way: The Governor's Palace is the living room. The mayor's office is the dining room and the city is the garden. And the favela is the back yard where they throw the garbage.

Carolina Maria de Jesus

Garden, Cities, Office

Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

we are slaves to the cost of living.

Carolina Maria de Jesus

Cost Of Living, Cost, Poverty

Who has gone hungry learns to think of the future and of the children.

Carolina Maria de Jesus

Children, Thinking, Gone

Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

I adore my black skin and my kinky hair. The Negro hair is more educated than the white man's hair. Because with Negro hair, where you put it, it stays. It's obedient. The hair of the white, just give one quick movement, and it's out of place. It won't obey. If reincarnation exists I want to come back black.

Carolina Maria de Jesus

Men, White Man, Hair

Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

When I am in the city I have the impression that I am in a living room with crystal chandeliers, rugs of velvet, and satin cushions. And when I'm in the favela I have the impression that I'm a useless object, destined to be forever in a garbage dump.

Carolina Maria de Jesus

Cities, Forever, Useless

Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

[On Brazil:] In our country everything is weakening. The money is weak. Democracy is weak and the politicians are very weak. Everything that is weak dies one day.

Carolina Maria de Jesus

Country, One Day, Democracy

Life is just like a book. Only after you've read it do you know how it ends. It is when we are at the end of life that we know how our life ran. Mine, until now, has been black. As black as my skin. Black as the garbage dump where I live.

Carolina Maria de Jesus

Life, Book, Black

Carolina Maria De Jesus (1990). “Beyond All Pity”