Oksana Marafioti Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps this view has to do with the beginnings of modern America, which are to me, like the big bang theory, violent and wonderous. No one was safe from hatred and betrayal. Everyone was fighting to survive. It seemed the American Gypsies weren't immune to the neck-breaking race for what became the American Dream. Like so many others, they were more than willing to cut their roots in order to stake their claim on prosperity. Could that be the reason the American Gypsies largely escaped the more malevolent prejudices their European counterparts suffered? — Oksana Marafioti

Even Soviet love songs were first and foremost propaganda, ballads of metalworkers or farmers who loved their country first and each other second. — Oksana Marafioti

Most of us give little thought to the importance or the meaning of a homeland. Not until we ourselves are foreigners fighting for acceptance, stripped of all ranks and titles and viewed as inferiors, do we miss that privilege. — Oksana Marafioti

Before I left, he said, 'Nothing in this life remains unchanged, o meu menino. Not even mountains. — Oksana Marafioti