Rosario Ferré quotes
![...there should be an absolute identification between the individual's experience and the writer's so that [experience] serves as the starting point for being able to write a short story or a novel later on... (Rosario Ferré)](https://cdn.quotesdtb.com/img/quotes_images_webp/41/rosario-ferr-able-absolute-479541.webp)
The fundamental truth of my life, the principle that governs it, is that nobody has a monopoly over the truth. Every person is a lens that focuses reality in a different way and everybody has the right to do so. This, in fact, is an anarchist principle, for I am indeed, an anarchist. From the moment I position myself at a certain standpoint, I immediately see things from that perspective and from its opposing perspective...
Rosario Ferré
...I grew up in Ponce where all our domestic service was black. I always had a lot of contact with them, and to a degree they gave me the kind of love that my family denied me. And so I have that sympathy-or empathy-for la gente de color (people of color), and I cannot help it. However, I do not like to create archetypes. If it is possible to break down a novel into archetypes, it is not a good novel...
Rosario Ferré
Rosario Ferré
Occupation: Puerto Rican WriterBorn: September 28, 1938
Died: February 19, 2016
Quotes count: 3
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